Note 579 — Chapter II · MIL-HUIT-CENT-TRENTE.
Reading edition
And, after all, let us remember that, on the testimony of the Goncourts (Journal, ii. 123), who have left some of the most offensive things against Sainte-Beuve, the critic, as late as 1863, rebuked Taine for belittling Hugo, in these memorable words, “Ne parlez pas d’Hugo. Vous ne le connaissez pas. Mais l'œuvre d’Hugo est magnifique!”