History of a Crime

The History of a Crime is an essay by Victor Hugo about Napoleon III's takeover of France. Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. The work was written in the few months following Hugo's flight, but only published in 1877, when Hu...