Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 179 Hugo, Victor 1802 1885 Hugo, Victor Marie, comte Hugo, Víctor Flameng, François 1856 1923 Flameng, Francois La Légende des siècles tome II $aParis :$bHetzel-Quantin, $c1880. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_L%C3%A9gende_des_si%C3%A8cles Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) La Légende des siècles tome II by Victor Hugo is a collection of poems written in the late 19th century. The work ranges across myth, history, and allegory to stage humanity’s struggle with fate, evil, and justice. It blends visionary meditations with narrative episodes, often casting towering figures—saints, tyrants, and knights—as emblems in a vast moral panorama. The opening of the collection sets a stark contrast between nihilism and hope before plunging into epic action. In L’Épopée du Ver, the Worm speaks as the voice of decay and annihilation, boasting its power over kings, religions, and even the stars; Le Poëte au Ver de Terre answers that the soul, truth, and virtue elude its grasp. Les Chevaliers Errants summons the austere grandeur of wandering paladins who defend right in ages of fear. The narrative Le Petit Roi de Galice follows ten Asturian uncles who abduct the boy-king Nuño to kill or confine him; Roland arrives, rebukes them, cuts down several (including Pacheco, Froïla, and Rostabat), holds a mountain pass alone, and sends the child safely back to Compostela, where the boy vows to rule justly, while Ruy le Subtil flees. The section Eviradnus then begins: the Alsatian knight overhears a dark plot by Sigismond and Ladislas, mounts to intervene, and is introduced as a relentless champion of the oppressed, alongside a vivid evocation of the storm-ravaged ruin of Corbus. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/uvrescompltesd08hugo/page/n9/mode/2up 20220426055038hugo 1880 FR Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr French poetry -- 19th century PQ Text Category: Poetry Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: Classics of Literature Category: French Literature 771959 2025-09-30T07:35:03.829511 text/html 744018 2025-06-27T11:33:28 text/html 969982 2025-09-30T07:35:40.427417 application/epub+zip 967707 2025-09-30T07:35:15.857579 application/epub+zip 339767 2025-09-30T07:35:09.905481 application/epub+zip 1125935 2025-09-30T07:35:48.939366 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 938521 2025-09-30T07:35:29.925448 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 423715 2025-09-30T07:35:00.040544 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 403752 2025-06-27T11:33:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17981 2025-09-30T07:35:49.130322 application/rdf+xml 13847 2025-09-30T07:35:10.155502 image/jpeg 2683 2025-09-30T07:35:10.033543 image/jpeg 1816895 2025-09-30T07:35:03.905559 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia