GARIBALDI AND VICTOR HUGO.
It is stated that General Garibaldi has addressed the following letter to Victor Hugo : “ Caprcra, Sept. 6, 1874. “My Very Dear Hugo,—The interest which you have shown by your subscription for a French translation of my work, ‘ The Thousand,’ places this poor embryo of my unpractised pen under your powerful and illustrious patronage. I thank you from my heart, and I am for life your devoted “G. Garibaldi.” Victor Hugo has replied;— “Paris, Sept. 18, 1874. “ Dear Garibaldi, —Your letter moves me, and I feel my old brotherly heart stir afresh within me for you. Yes, relate yourself your superb deeds ; relate them to Italy, relate them to France, relate them to the world. ‘ The Thousand ’ arc glorious, as were the ‘Ten Thousand,’ with this additional lustre, that they conquered and that they arc not illustrious for having retreated but for having advanced. Like Xenophon, you make an epic, and after having made it you relate it ; but you are greater than Xenophon. In him dwelt but the soul of Greece, hut in you the soul of peoples. Dear Garibaldi, I embrace you. “ Victor IIitoo.”
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 157, 5 December 1874, Page 3
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