Tag: victor hugo

Victor Hugo: do you smell the people’s waste
Victor Hugo: wasting the richest of manures
Victor Hugo: it is the fate of france herself
Victor Hugo: that is flowing down the sewers
Victor Hugo: when five hundred million francs
Victor Hugo: stop being excreted out to sea
Victor Hugo: we shall reap a great harvest grown on poop and pee
Victor Hugo: btw valjean took marius to the sewers and I guess javert’s there too

All at once [Enjolras] threw back his head, his blond locks fell back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo.

– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.
Aka leader of the Enjolras Appreciation Club. (via atethecanary)

#it shone with the glory of a thousand suns #but it was better than the sun #because the sun is less bright when it rains #but this GLORIOUS GOLDEN CASCADING ANGEL MANE never got frizzy in the rain #it was immune to bedhead #as though it knew that angels never sleep #it was like syrup being poured over hot waffles #except instead of syrup it was pure gold #and the waffles are made of FIERCELY FLAPPING ANGEL WINGS

WAFFLES MADE OF FIERCELY FLAPPING ANGEL WINGS (via pilferingapples)

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In honor of Victor Hugo’s birthday, please reblog with one (1) Wild Fact about him. My go-to is the one about his funeral, and how all the prostitutes in Paris wore black veils over their crotches to mourn their best client.

( @pilferingapples I KNOW you have some good ones, and probably some I haven’t heard yet.)

24601 comes from the day Victor Hugo [believes he] was conceived: June 24, 1801

-When Hugo was in school, he reigned like the king of the schoolyard, calling assemblies of the other kids, making them kneel (and sometimes stepping on them apparently??) and sending them to run his errands and bring back school contraband of various sorts. Years later, as an adult, he asked a classmate he’d been particularly demanding towards why none of them had ever told him to get bent, and the classmate said, essentially, “ But then you might have stopped paying attention to me, and that would have been the worst!”

-Marius and Cosette’s wedding night is the night Hugo and Juliette first had sex. This is confirmed by her own letters.

-Hugo drew his (really very inventive) pictures with all sorts of materials, including food, spilled coffee, spit, and…possibly worse:P

– We know so much about Hugo’s sex life because he kept an itemized barely-coded Sex Diary

– Hugo wrote a little poem to put on a dog’s collar; with the result that the collar was stolen almost daily by people who wanted a Victor Hugo Original

– After Les Miserables came out, Hugo was swamped with letters from people begging for money in the name of Jean Valjean, threatening to turn to crime if he didn’t pay up.

– He wrote naked

His parents conceived on Mount Donon, and he used to tell his son that he was destined to be special because of it. That spot is marked with a block of sandstone that says:

IN THIS PLACE

ON 5 FLOREAL, YEAR 9

VICTOR HUGO

WAS CONCEIVED

It was made by some dude in the 1960’s as a joke, and I personally think we should all take a field trip there.

– he was a foot fetishist

– he claimed to have had sex with his wife NINE times on their wedding night

– he was recognized by a group of belgians in 1881 and they broke his windows and doors while shouting “down with victor hugo! down with jean valjean!”

– he once sent his publishers a telegram that just said “?” (they replied with “!”)

– oscar wilde was once at a party at his house and instead of listening to his anecdotes hugo fell asleep

– in the original draft of les mis jean valjean was named jean tréjean which literally just means “jean veryjean”