TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Bertin, Éric
A1  - Brix, Michel
TI  - New insights into Sainte-Beuve and Gustave Planche’s reception of Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo
T2  - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 1 – 2024, 124e année, n° 1. varia
JO  - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France (ISSN 2105-2689), 124-1, 1 – 2024
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16571-2.p.0059
SN  - 2105-2689
SP  - 59
EP  - 71
AB  - Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse was first performed on November 22, 1832, then officially banned the next day. Hugo did, at least, manage to get the text published: it came off the press of the publisher Renduel on December 2, with a preface by Hugo written in response to the ban. But in such a context, the author needed more than ever the support of his “friends” to take on the authorities. This article draws on two unpublished letters to Hugo, and shows that both Sainte-Beuve and Gustave Planche were minded, on this occasion, to equivocate and let the author of Le roi s’amuse stand alone. It was a moment that would definitively change Hugo’s relations with the two critics. This article also offers, in an appendix, a report on the first four editions printed in France of Le roi s’amuse.
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/02/14
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Victor Hugo, C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Gustave Planche, Le roi s’amuse, censorship, unpublished letters
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-histoire-litteraire-de-la-france-1-2024-124e-annee-n-1-varia-new-insights-into-sainte-beuve-and-gustave-planche-s-reception-of-le-roi-s-amuse-by-victor-hugo.html
Y2  - 2024/06/01
ER  -