St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-23
VICTOR HUGO'S LIFE ENDED.
Death of the Great French Writer
Mourned by the World.
His Funeral to be Conducted by the
State With Due Honor.


Allan large, minister of the interior, to
allow the coffin to lie under the Arc de
Triomphe for twenty-four hours. The mu-
nicipal council has expressed the wish that
the remains be inferred in the Pantheon.
This wish will be considered by the coun-
Gil of ministers tomorrow. The death of
M. Hugo dwarfs every other subject political
as well as social. The ministry will re-
quest the chamber of deputies to adjourn as
token of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased. 1t is reported that he bequeathed
his manuscripts to France, and that he left
it to the republic to select burial place for
his remains and to decide as to the form of
his funeral Victor Hugo's condition was
so manifestly worse this morning that his
death was regarded as certain to take place
within few hours. When this fact
became known Cardinal. Guibart, the
archbishop Of Paris sent specially to
Hugo's residence, offering to visit him and
administer spiritual aid and the rites OF the
Catholic church. Mr.. Lockray, the poets
son-in-law, who was in attendance at the
death-bed when the cardinals proffer came,
replied for Hugo, declining with thanks the
archbishop's tender. and saying for the dy-
ing man: ''Victor Hugo is expecting death,
but he does not desire the services of a
priest"
THE DEATH SCENE.
A storm was raging when Victor Hugo
died. The news of his death was an
nounced to the assembled crowd by Victorin
Sardou. The dying man lay
in a trance for some hours
before the end. He awoke suddenly,
raised his head, gazed at his family and
friends standing around the bed and sank
back lifeless. His white hair and beard
grew quite long during the illness and
his body is much emaciated, but
the brow retains its grandeur. Sculptor
Dalon has taken cast of the face, Wadar
has taken a photograph and GlaiZe made
another sketch. When his death was an
nounced there was great rush of reporters
to the house. and the servants were obliged
to repel them. Lockroy closed the front
door, leaving the table in the street for Wis
iting cards. The body will be embalmed.
Immense quantities of flowers are arriving
at the refidence.
PRESS HONOR.
The newspapers of Paris appear in
mourning this evening. 1t is believed that
the funeral will be the grandest seen in
France for century. The poet was
sketched as he lay ON his death bed by the
great painter, B0nnat, who will transfer to
canvass the impression taken. In the SEN
ate M. LIE Roger delivered an eulogy on the
dead author. The speaker said that for the
past sixty years Victor Hugo had been the
admiration of France and the world.
He had now entered Immortality. His
glory belonged to no party, but to all men.
Prime Minister Brisson delivered the eu-
logy in the chamber of deputies. He said
the whole nation mourned the loss of Vic
tor Hugo, and moved that the funeral of
the poet be conducted at the states expense.
The motion was greeted with applause. The
senate and chamber adjourned in respect to
his memory. 1t is stated that NJ Hugo
passed through long and terrible agony be-
fore death. 1t is proposed to inter the
poets remains in the Pantheon and that the
day of the funeral be declared a day Of
mourning, On which all government offices,
the schools and theaters shall be closed
In the death of Victor Marie Hugo, the
French nation loses the greatest poet and
| novelist Of the present generation. Born in
Besallcon, Feb. rs, 1902, the son of an officer
whose duties carried him out of France, he
was taken in childhood to Elba, Corsica,
Switzerland and Italy, and in 1909 to Paris.
Here for two years, with an elder brother,
Eugene and a girl whom he afterward wed
he began his classical education under the
exclusive supervision of his mother and the
care of an old priest. Then, his father hay
ing been made general and appointed major
domo to King Joseph Bonaparte OF SPAIN he
| entered the seminary of mobiles in Madrid
| with the design of becoming page to Joseph,
which was defeated, however, by subsequent
| events. In 1872 he returned to his studies in
Paris. When the empire fell Gen. Hugo and
| his wife separated, and Victor was thence
| forth under the exclusive care of his father
Entering private academy to prepare for
the polytechnic school, he evinced a stronger
inclination toward poetry than mathematics,
| and his father was persuaded to allow him
| to follow literature as vocation. In 1917 he
presented poem on The Advantages of
Study and afterward won three successive
prizes at the Toulouse Academy of Floral
Games.
At the age of 20 he published his first vol
ume of Odes and Ballads, which created
sensation. Two novels, Han. dIslande (1823)
and Bug-Jargal QS52), showed his force and
originality i'll prose, also his prediction for
the horrible and monstrous, which permeates
his greater works. In 1926 appeared his Sec
ond volume of Odes and Ballads. In 1S41 he
had reached the highest distinction in litera-
ture, being elected to the French academy,
in spite of the opposition OF the old classical
school. He INDUCED in political aspirations
which were gratified by King Louis Philippe
in 1S45, who made him peer of France. On
the revolution of February, 1S4S he was
elected deputy to the constituent assembly
and voted with the conservatives. On his re-
election to the legislative assembly he became
more democratic, and in vehement speeches
denounced the reactionary tendencies of the
majority and President Louis Napoleon's Sc
cret policy.
Hugo was among those deputies who vainly
sought to preserve the constitution and main-
tain the rights of the assembly, in December,
1851. For this he was prescribed and took
refuge in the island of Jersey, where he con-
tinued his opposition to Louis Napoleon, pub
fishing Napoleon lie Petit Q652) and his bitter
firac &C Tyvnx 1oxa, Lo
was compelled on account of some hostile
manifestation to the French government, to
remove to the island of Guernsey, and in 1859
declined to accept the amnesty offered to po-
litical exiles. In 1856 he published Les Con-
temptations; in 1859, La Legende DIES Siecles.
and in 1862 Les Miserables, the latter stimuli
taneously in nine languages and eight cities.
Les Miserables is unquestiOnably his most
popular it not strongest romance. ChanSons
DIES Rues ct DIES Bots, Les Travailleurs de la
Mer and u HOmme Qui Rit, followed respec-
lively in 1865 1865 and 1862 In 1859 he again re-
fused amnesty at the hands of Louis Napoleon.
After the fall of Napoleon and the procla-
nation of the republic Hugo returned to
Paris and soon after issued an address to the
Germans, urging the formation of a German
republic and friendship with France. On
Feb. 8, 1871, he was elected one of the forty
three representatives of the department of
the Seine in the national assembly, in which
body he opposed the parliamentary treaty Of
peace With Germany. rms angered the
party of the Right, and when he attempted
to address the assembly, on March s, so vio-
lent was the opposition that he left the
tribune and resigned his seat. Returning to
Paris at the outbreak of the commune, he
vainly protested in the rappel against the
destruction of the Vendome, and soon after
went to Brussels, where he wrote
protest against the course of the Belgian
government in regard to the insurgents of
Paris and Offering an asylum to the soldiers
of the commune. His reward was narrow