Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-23
DEATH OF VICTOR HUGO.
GREAT MoUsNiNo N FRANCE.
The Senate and Chamber Adjourn
After Listening 70 euiogiss-The
Arc de Triomphs tor Tomb.

Pans, Nag <z.-t ictoF hag0 died al 10
o'elock tbls afternoon, aged -. The even
M newspapers appear IA mourning for the
dead poet it - believed that n h1g0's
funeral ~ be ne yrandsst seen ia francs
foe a century. The ceissbratsd painter Bou-
aat made q sketch ~ hH.gD a. &c iay ga hls
death bed, add xili PANT a portrait frOln T.
Il. TIE selate this afternoon 81. Lsroyef, the
venerable statesman. pronounced euiOgy
ap0n ihe dead poet. n. Brisson. the Prime
Minister also saloglzed the deceased, and
moved that Ehe funeral be conducted by the
state he motion Nas unanimously adopted.
The senate and ChamDef 0t Deputies, after
listening "a addrcase-. adjourned a. a mark
II respect a. hag0. lt - proposed ~ inter
tbs pset ood5 Ia the Pantheon The day or
abe fglerai al Be observed All over France
a. On5 of mourning. All the g0gornuent
officers, schools aud theatres Nill be closed.
The -tale ~iii deffas al the EXPENSES Of the
funeral. II y stated Lhat Hugo suffered
terribly foe several hours before his death.
Victor Hugo. the Titan of modern poets,
eas born az bsssanc0n On the 18th OF FObgu-
ary. l-O., and va, therefore. over So years
Ot age. his father Gen. HagO, ~as en-
zaaed in warfare Ia Italy aud Spain during
Fiet5r's childhood bat the mother and
children followed the father and thus VIC
tor. eaFiy years we're spent amid the terri
Die .ceues following the fortunes Of var.
There " deep pathos ia the story which the
telegraph brought yesterday morning OF bis
memories OF those days, during The de-
hrium Of his dying hours. After the fail Of
Napoioon Victor Was put Ia school az
Paris where the FIRE OF his genius
Showed Itself in his organizing dramatic
representations and nihng eopy books with
poetry. Within three years-frOm thirteen
10 sixteen-he bad written collection Of
verses comprising Ode- satires, poems.
tragedies. elegies, limitations OF Os-ian,
translations from Virgil, Horace, and other
Latin poets. a comic opera and an epic OF
SO lines, called The Deluge.' The mother
delighted Ia the son literary tastes, but she
died when he Wa -, and the father al
lowed hIm allowance only on
condition OF his abandoning htera-
tare. This he refused 10 do. and afterward
had 10 provide himself for years with a
scanty maintenance with the pen. a course Of
hfo which he portrayed IN that OF UdriHs IN
Les Miserables." His 'tbdes and Ballads"
brought pension from the king. however.
and receiving about eight hundred francs
from "Han a. Islande' he determined TO
marry. and with the eight hundred francs
bought an Indian shawl for a wedding present
- hls wife. But on the very night OF his
wedding his brother Eugene, the companion
Of his whole hfe. became incurably insane.
Afterward he lost his father and his FIRST
born child and was almost broken down
with grief II Is inpOssIols here 20 follow
the vlcissitudes OF the great authors career.
He has been discussed aud criticized, bat all
the criticism has not checked the tide OF his
reputation. It has rather aided it. The
members OF ths Academy rose to their feet
when he was received IN 1871, the greatest
honor ever paid by that body 10 a new mem-
Der. The story Of his exile and his political
life belong 20 history aud are well known
The poem, Published IN two large volumes.
ia 1881, II We mistake not, entitled Les
Quatre Vents De fEsprii' showed the mex
haastabls fertility OF tho great author.
"Give NJ. Hugo himself. God. the people,
tyrants and the sea for material" says one
writer. "and there u no reason why ne
should ever stop" But death stops all, and
u has stopped Victor Hugo.