Victor HUGO: “He who gives to the poor lends to God. Victor Hugo.”

Victor HUGO (1802.1885)

Signed autograph piece.

An oblong octavo page on blue paper.

Marginal defects.

Without place or date.

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Famous verse by Victor Hugo taken from his collection of poems “ Les Voix Intérieures ” published in 1837 (V. God is always there ).

“He who gives to the poor lends to God. Victor Hugo. »

Magnificent thought that the writer wanted to be universal; which he wrote and cited regularly throughout his life, as a philosophical and religious testament.

Happy are those whom my zeal inflames!

Who gives to the poor lends to God.

The good we do perfumes the soul;

We always remember it a little!

In the evening, at the threshold of his home,

Happy is he who still knows

Picking up a crying child

Like a miser a gold sequin.