Victor HUGO - Autograph letter signed to Th. de BANVILLE.

Victor HUGO (1802.1885)

Autograph letter signed to Théodore de Banville.

A page in-8° on blue paper.

Miter mark on the 4th ^sheet and slight missing without affecting the text.

[Guernsey] H[auteville]. House. April 22 [1870]

“My poet, I love you, because you have a great heart as well as a great mind. »

Friendly and warm letter from Hugo to his friend Banville, congratulating him on the publication of his comedy entitled Florise.

“It’s charming, it’s cheerful, it’s funny. Oh, the sweet and dark poem! My mind is fulfilled and my heart is tight! I will reread this Florise . For example, there is a misprint on page 132, we will try it for we will try it . The exquisite, embalmed, flamboyant, living poem came out of my four verses like the tulip comes out of the onion. Yours tulip has the scent. My poet, I love you, because you have a great heart as well as a great mind. When will I see you? I would need an apparition like yours in my solitude . You are doing work after work, well done, stars are coming out of your head . Florise play . I kiss you. Victor Hugo. »

A few weeks after this letter, on September 5, 1870, Victor Hugo finally returned to France, putting an end to nearly twenty years of exile.