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Because the monarchists have split their support among various claimants to the throne, the republicans achieve a working majority. The second volume of Hugo’s poetic history of the world,
La Légende des
siècles, appears.
1878 A stroke leaves Hugo incapable of composing additional literary works.
1880 After years of efforts, Hugo arranges amnesty for the Com munards, popular-front rebels in the Paris of 1871 opposed to surrender to the Prussians. Some 20,000 of them, including women and children, had been slaughtered by French government troops—more than the total of those guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1793. Guy de Maupassant’s collected Contes (Stories) are published.
1881 On February 26, Hugo’s birthday, a national holiday is proclaimed, and 600,000 marchers pass his windows. The street where he lives is renamed
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