Rue Hugo

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"... Victor Hugo: An ardent admirer once said to Hugo: ?The nation has never treated you quite properly; no street has been called after you; there ought to be a Rue Victor Hugo.? ?That will come, my children; that will come,? said the master. Then another disciple took up the running and said: ?A street! That indeed would be nothing; a whole quarter ..."

"... Victor Hugo: An ardent admirer once said to Hugo: "The nation has never treated ycu qui,te properly; no street has been called after you; there ought to be a Rue Victor Hugo." "That will come, my children; that will come," said the master. Then another: disciple took up the running and said: "A street! That indeed would be nothing; a whole quarter ..."

"... with the stones from the hurled there as from a dice- box. Smoke and steam oozed forth from every ruin. Th# sllence was awful as the sight of death. Rue Victor Hugo was effaced. the way up toward the morna un- A breathing pile of debris barred every way. It was plain that they must raake their way southward along tho shore. ..."