Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-23
VICTOR HUGO DEAD.

Dies at Half Past One Yesterday Afternoon
"A Sketch of the Great Poet.
PARIS, May 22.-Yictor Hugo died at
half past one this afternoon.
The Ministry will request the Chamber Of
Deputies to adjourn as mark of respect to
the deceased.
1t is reported that N. Hugo left his manu-
script to France and that he left it to the
Republic to select burial place for his re.
mains and to decide for his funeral.
Victor Hugo's condition was so manifest
IL worse this morning that his death wss re.
garded as certain to to take place within a
few hours. When this fact became known,
Cardinal Guibert, 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. NJ
Lockroy, the poets sonin,law, who Yves in
attendance at the death bed when the Car.
Ginsrs proffer came, replied for Hugo, de-
cliniDg with thanks the Archbishops tender,
and saying:
Victor Hugo is expecting death, but he
does not desire the services of a priest"
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte, one Of the
most distinguished French writers Of the
present day, was born February 26, 1902,
AZ Besancon, where his father was then
commandant of the garrison. His mother
was a native OF lie Vendee and from her
he imbibed romantic royalist sentiments,
although his father was devoted follower
Of Napoleon. His youth was spent partly
with his mother in Paris, pastly in Italy
and Spain. He early acquired distinc-
ton by his poetic illusions, and
before he was thirty years Of
age his published works were numer-
Gus and his name famous. Odes and bal
lads, romsnces dramas, etc, flowed ftom
his prolific pen. Shortly before the rev9lu-
ton of 1880 q literary revolution took
place, at the head of which was Hugo. A
band Of young men, imaginative, ardent and
confident, sought TO renovate French hters.
tu1e By departing from classic rules and
models, substituting q varied and very ir-
regular verse for the monotonous AleXan.
drines OF the old school and making art con-
form precisely 10 nature, which he carried
so far as even to bring into prom
nence things dissgreeable which na
ture herself is displessed with, and
teaches to keep out Of sight. The new
school, Ia Jeune France as they called them
selves, formed the romanticists, and their
opponents, the clsssicists The literary war
lasted several years. Hugo's drama of
Marion Delorne, was received with enthu-
siasm, and he added to his reputation
BY the publication of Feuilles d Antoine.
In 1882 the ministry suspended one
of his dramas lie Roi 8
Amuse; but his popularity continued
to increase, and in 1887 Louis PhlGy
made him an officer of the Legion OF Honor
and in lS45 q peer of France. After the
revolution Of 1913 he was elected 10 repre-
sent Paris both in the constituent and in
the legislative assembly, in which he mani
tested Democratic principles aud was one
of the members Of the Extreme Left Who
were banished from France for life By Louis
Napoleon. he went to reside in the Island
of Jersey. In 1862 he asssiled the
ruler Of France in 8 political pam
phet Napoleon le Petit; next year
IL Ice SualAHCntS- q scEicc vi pOehS wit
ten with great rerre, in the same spirit 10
1856 he published his Contemplstions He
refused to avail himself Of the amnesty of
August Is, 1859, but on the fall of the en-,
pire FASTENED back to his native country,
Joined in the Republican movement and
was returned to the National Assembly at
Bordeaux, which, however. he soon Quilted
in disgust: He then went to Brussels. out
the Belgian government expelled him from
the country, and he had to seek refuge 10
Visnden. village of Luxembourg
where LAimee Terrible was composed.
Returning to Paris in July, 1871, he