![]() ![]() The 1848 revolution comes to interrupt the drafting. A confinement conducive to writing: he embarked on the writing of "Jean Tréjean", which he later renamed "Les Misères". She is thrown in prison in Saint-Lazare, while the already famous writer, peer of France protected by his parliamentary immunity, chooses to cloister himself at home to let the scandal fall. Hugo, the inveterate ladies' man, was caught in the act of adultery on the 5th of July, 1845, with Léonie d´Aunet, a very married woman of letters. “Les Misérables” was created in scabrous circumstances to say the least. The story of the writing of “Les Miserables” was a true serial novel, very 19th century style. It was a long creative process and not only because the manuscript contains 828 pages. Victor Hugo spent 16 years writing “Les Misérables”, between Paris, Guernsey and Waterloo. ![]()
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