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Victor Hugo

Note 2 — ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

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This poem on St-Arnaud is dated from Jersey, and must therefore have been written before the second of November 1855—a date of disgrace for Jersey, if not indeed for England. It appears in the various later editions of the Châtiments, but has disappeared from the so-called "édition définitive." All readers have aright to ask why—and a right to be answered when they ask.

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