#he killed a lot of people (even when he couldve saved lives with diplomacy)
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SO true
#les mis#victor hugo#learning about Hugo's war crimes really does completely shatter your perspective of him#and reframes a lot of the book#im making this as a joke meme but yeah it was Awful#I'm not sure if Pilf or someones already made a post explaining it for tumblr?#the basic context is that Hugo was on 'the wrong side' of the Barricades in 1848#working with Napoleon III's regime to violently crush a (justified) working class rebellion against the regime's new draconian labor laws#edit: I got it wrong it was in the interim regime between Philippe and Napoleon iii — not Napoleon iii’s official reign yet#he killed a lot of people (even when he couldve saved lives with diplomacy)#in large part because he was also suicidal at the time#and yeah the more context ya get the worse it looks#yeah his politics changed drastically later on but like. Yike#like he later became very pro barricade and anti Napoleons but. yee#maybe part of why his writing on Javert is good is because he has experience committing atrocities for an unjust authority#:P
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