Project Gutenberg 2025-08-06 Public domain in the USA. 787 Hugo, Victor 1802 1885 Hugo, Victor Marie, comte Hugo, Víctor Flameng, François 1856 1923 Flameng, Francois La Légende des siècles tome III $aParis :$bHetzel-Quantin, $c1880. Œuvres complètes de Victor Hugo - Poésie IX 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 III by Victor Hugo is a collection of narrative poems written in the late 19th century. The volume ranges across myth, history, and allegory to probe tyranny, war, faith, justice, and the stubborn hope of human progress. Gods, kings, sages, soldiers, and common lives appear in vivid tableaux that question power and celebrate the human spirit. The opening of the volume centers on Le Satyre: a faun hauled by Hercules before Jupiter, ridiculed by the gods, who then sings—on Mercury’s flute and Apollo’s lyre—four visions of the sky, the earth’s dark roots and chaos, humanity’s fall under kings and wars yet tending toward emancipation, and a final cosmic challenge where Pan confronts Olympus. Subsequent poems leap through eras: a biting exchange among infamous rulers where Borgia outbids Satan; Clarté d’âmes, a nocturne of solitary thinkers whose thoughts brighten the dawn; an allegory of waterfalls birthing an arc of glory; a Spanish infanta with her rose set against Philip II brooding over the Armada and a breeze no prince can command; a Nicaraguan volcano refusing baptism in protest at the Inquisition; a jaunty sea-ballad of adventurers dwindling to ten; an ironic vignette of “kindly” torturers; a meditation on the guillotine’s blade catching a star; and the start of a martial sketch of the Imperial Swiss halberdiers under Baron Madruce. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/uvrescompltesd09hugo/page/n9/mode/2up 20220426055038hugo 1880 FR Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr French poetry -- 19th century PQ Text Category: Poetry Category: Classics of Literature Category: French Literature 559725 2025-08-06T18:00:08.938363 text/html 532424 2025-08-06T09:23:06 text/html 988538 2025-08-06T18:00:35.097219 application/epub+zip 985677 2025-08-06T18:00:17.132318 application/epub+zip 263982 2025-08-06T18:00:12.972332 application/epub+zip 1033194 2025-08-06T18:00:41.753194 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 879095 2025-08-06T18:00:27.995277 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302829 2025-08-06T18:00:06.039381 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 282861 2025-08-06T09:23:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15207 2025-08-06T18:00:41.943173 application/rdf+xml 13859 2025-08-06T18:00:13.185331 image/jpeg 2686 2025-08-06T18:00:13.081313 image/jpeg 2594924 2025-08-06T18:00:09.004384 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 en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia