Theatre | Preface of the Last Day

Théâtre des Charmes

1829: The last day of a condemned man is a success and evokes a lot of reactions from the conservative class. In the 3rd edition, Victor Hugo writes a preface in the form of a parody vignette where he puts in the mouths of caricatured bourgeois the jabs at books. 1832: The number of reissues is no longer counted. Hugo writes a more accomplished and argued preface that reasonably defends the abolition of the death penalty. These are the two prefaces that will be brought to the stage, that of the young author and impulsive and corrosive playwright and that of a future deputy who back…