Victor HUGO (1802-1885). L.A.S., Friday evening, [to Baron Charles DUPIN]; 2 pages in-8. "My dear and eloquent colleague, Yesterday, while I was saying a few useless words in the Chamber, sad news arrived at my home. An old and venerable woman who had almost raised me, my mother's last mother, had died suddenly in the morning. This is for me one of those deep mournings of the heart, the truest and most real of all. ....