New-York tribune., 1902-02-23
VICTOR HUGO.
THE FORTHCOMING CELEBRATION OF
HIS CENTENARY-AN ELABORATE
PROGRAAINE-SOAI ANECDOTES

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holiday. Festivities will begin at 10 O'Clock in
the morning at the Pantheon. where the poets
remains were buried on June l. 1SS5 President
Loubet. NJ Fallieres, president Of the Senate.
NJ. Deschanel. president of the Chamber -
Deputies; NJ Waldeck-Roussaau. president %
the Council of Ministers; General Brugere com
mander in chief of the army: the president of
the Court of Cessation. Senator's, Deputies
judges. members of the French Academy. Dro-
fessors of the University of Paris and all the
important functionaries and officials will ba
present. An address will be delivered bv NJ
Georges Leygues. Minister of Public Instruc-
tiOn and Fine Arts. and an oration VIII he nro
nounced in behalf of the French Academy
These will be the only speeches Music in
spired by Victor Hugo's poems such for in
stance, the hymn Aux MOrts de Juliet "
set by Berlioz, will be played by the CoIonna
and LamOureux Orchestras. Choirs of several
hundred voices will sing selections from Victor
Hugo's poetry. and actors and actresses of the
Comedie Francaise Will recite verses from his
plays 1t was originally intended TO inauglIrate
on February 26 the Victor Hugo Museum i,
the house which bears the number 6 Place ias
Vosses. where the author resided in the ear
lier part of his life and where he wrote "Narfor
DelOrme" Hermann" ''N6tre Dame de Paris,
which belongs to the city of Paris, is occupied
by a municipal school, and cannot be trans
formed in time. this part of the ceremony has
been postponed to May n the anniversary NJ
the poets death.
After the functions at the Pantheon there will
be a national Qualification at the house No. l2f
Avenue Victor Hugo. where the author Of La
Ltgende des SiecIes'' died. \ chorus u fifteen
hundred singers viii chant appropriate o,Ies
and the band of the Garde Republican,. rein
forced by three other military bands viii pIay
march while two thousand school children de6Ia
past Victor Hugo's bust executed by Rodin The
boys will bear in their arms palm branches and
the girls will bring bouquets of variegata1
flowers. The boys viii place palm branches to
the right Of the bust. while the girls will dis
pose flowers at the left. so that after the march
past the bust will emerge from a serried bed os
flowers and palms The next ceremony will
take place in the Place Victor Hugo. where in
the presence of President Loubet and all the
digntaries Of the French Republic and the dele
gates from foreign nations the Victor Hugo
monument will be unveiled. The monument.
which is in brOnze and is over thirty-tw-a feet
high is by Barrias the we'll known SCULPTOR.
who has been working at il for seven years
1t exhibited in plaster in the sculpture
court OF the Worlds Fair in 1892 where il was
the central piece. dominating All else about it.
The great writer wearing q long. loose coat
is represented in heroic size. leaning against a
rock The left hand is placed beside the Jaw
and the left elbow is supported by the right
hand. The head is uncovered. and the couut--
nance has an expression of profound cou--u-
pIation Female figures holding Tyres and palm
branches are beneath and the massive peI-=1aI
has four bronze plates bearing four bas~-r-iief
groups representing the poets four card nal
charact" ,ics- The front plate is entitled La
Mutt & {uatre' and bears the inscription
-'L'enf tvait recu deux bales dams Ia t5te."
1t is tn fictor Hugo of the street riots II is
the death Of C;avroche on the harricaJ-~. The
second plate represents Victor -tfuso the aov-
elist. The characters of Les Nistrah-e>~ Of
The Toiers Of the Sea IF ''N6tre Dame de
Paris of -Quatre-vinst- Treize,'' Of ..I-II s-ume
qui Kit" and other works of fiction are assem-
u,ed. rendering homage To the master v.ll ere
ated them. y third plate represents VISITOR
Hugo speaking at the tribune in the Chamber
of Deputies The fourth plate depicts him
ascending Mount ParnassuS where H. is well
coined by all the great poets from H-sl.f and
Homer to CorneilIe Racine and V.-3lr- The
cost OF the monument. am0uutju- -e >~lo11
was betrayed by public subscription.
ON the evening Of February .f -Lss Bur
graves viii be given at the Theatre F.-r.sis.
when Noun5t-Sully. SyIvain. Le Esr--. lLue.
Eart-t and Nine. SesonI-W-ber wl- appear in
the historic drama which was rI,-..-- On
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