Excerpt from Victor Hugo: A Life Related by One Who Has Witnessed It, Including a Drama in Three Acts, Entitled Inez De Castro and Other Unpublished Works Contributed largely. He published Bug Jargal in it, and wrote for it both poetry and prose. Everything was quite Royalist in its tendencies, for he associated with no one but his mother. His father he saw less than ever, for it was only twice or thrice a-year at most that he paid a brief visit of a day or two to Paris. On these hurried visits, the General did not even stay at his wife's house. Their perpetual separations had, as one may easily imagine, greatly weakened the domestic ties. Husband and wife had got used to living apart, and at last their own will as much as necessity kept them asunder. The children had naturally fallen to her share; they had never left her, she had constrained them in nothing, she had brought them up in the greatest freedom, she had allowed them to select their own walk in life, she was to them liberty and poetry personified. Their father, on the contrary, was almost a stranger, who had only made their acquaintance at Madrid to shut them up in the College of Nobles, and again in Paris in order to imprison them in M. Cordier's school, where they were condemned to mathematics in perpetuity. For all these reasons, the father's opinions were not much respected by his sons. He himself under stood the uselessness of combating a few hours in each year against daily and hourly influence. He resigned himself to his fate, and left the result to his children's after-reflections and natural good sense. On one occasion, during one of these journeys, always so few and far be tween, he saw Eugene and Victor at General Lucotte's. Victor having expressed himself warm in favour of the Vendeans, his father, who had listened to him without. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.