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The story is a dramatic episode of the revolt of the blacks of St. Domingo in 1791. Bug-Jargal, the hero, is a negro, a slave in the household of a planter. He is secretly in love with his master's daughter, a poetic child, betrothed to her cousin, Leopold d'Auverney. The latter saves the life of Bug-Jargal, who is condemned to death for an act of rebellion. When the great revolt breaks out, and the whole island is in flames, Bug-Jargal protects the young girl, and saves the life of her lover. He even conducts D'Auverney to her he loves, and then, in the fullness of sublime abnegation, he surrenders himself to the whites, who shoot him dead.
"Bug-Jargal" (1826; first published as a short story in 1819) is an early novel by French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). It describes the friendship between the enslaved African prince Bug-Jargal and Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave revolt in Santo Domingo of August, 1791, that would eventually lead to the creation of the republic of Haiti in 1804. --- Bug-Jargal, black slave and son of a king, is a man "of the noblest moral and intellectual character, passionately in love with a white woman, yet tempering the wildest passion with the deepest respect... There is no reader of the tale, who can forget the entrancing interest of the scenes in the camp of the insurgent chief Biassou, or the death-struggle between Habibrah and D'Auverney, upon the brink of the cataract. The latter, in particular, is drawn with such intense force, that the reader seems almost to be a witness of the changing fortunes of the fight, and can hardly breathe freely till he comes to the close." (The Edinburgh Review)
Set during the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804,?Bug-Jargal?is the story of an enslaved African prince called Bug-Jargal and an officer in the French military, Leopold. Although the work was published in 1826, the novel was originally more of a novella, making its first premiere in the magazine Hugo and his brother operated,?Le Conservateur Llitteraire, in 1820.??Hugo later noted that he had written the manuscript for?Bug-Jargal?in 1819 at the age of 17. While the original is different from the novel well-circulated today, the dated manuscript from Hugo's magazine proves the author's great talent and ability for writing great literature, even at a young age.
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Le premier roman de Victor Hugo en numérique. Bug-Jargal est le premier roman de Victor Hugo. Découvrez la première oeuvre d'un des plus grands écrivains de langue française. EXTRAIT En 1818, l’auteur de ce livre avait seize ans ; il paria qu’il écrirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. Seize ans, c’est l’âge où l’on parie pour tout et où l’on improvise sur tout. Ce livre a donc été écrit deux ans avant Han d’Islande. Et quoique, sept ans plus tard, en 1825, l’auteur l’ait remanié et récrit en grande partie, il n’en est pas moins, et par le fond et par beaucoup de détails, le premier ouvrage de l’auteur. Il demande pardon à ses lecteurs de les entretenir de détails si peu importants ; mais il a cru que le petit nombre de personnes qui aiment à classer par rang de taille et par ordre de naissance les œuvres d’un poëte, si obscur qu’il soit, ne lui sauraient pas mauvais gré de leur donner l’âge de Bug-Jargal ; et, quant à lui, comme ces voyageurs qui se retournent au milieu de leur chemin et cherchent à découvrir encore dans les plis brumeux de l’horizon le lieu d’où ils sont partis, il a voulu donner ici un souvenir à cette époque de sérénité, d’audace et de confiance, où il abordait de front un si immense sujet, la révolte des noirs de Saint-Domingue en 1791, lutte de géants, trois mondes intéressés dans la question, l’Europe et l’Afrique pour combattants, l’Amérique pour champ de bataille. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Victor Hugo est un poète, dramaturge, prosateur et dessinateur romantique français, né le 26 février 1802 à Besançon et mort le 22 mai 1885 à Paris. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de langue française.
Chapitre 1 : - Quand vint le tour du capitaine L�opold d'Auverney, il ouvrit de grands yeux et avoua � ces messieurs qu'il ne connaissait r�ellement aucun �v�nement de sa vie qui m�rit�t de fixer leur attention. - Mais, capitaine, lui dit le lieutenant Henri, vous avez pourtant, dit-on, voyag� et vu le monde. N'avez-vous pas visit� les Antilles, l'Afrique et l'Italie, l'Espagne '.... Ah ! capitaine, votre chien boiteux ! D'Auberney tressaillit, laissa tomber son cigare, et se retourna brusquement vers l'entr�e de la tente, au moment o� un chien �norme accourait en boitant vers lui. Le chien �crasa en passant le cigare du capitaine; le capitaine n'y fit nulle attention. Le chien lui l�cha les pieds, le flatta avec sa queue, jappa, gambada de son mieux, puis vint se coucher devant lui. Le capitaine, �mu, oppress�, le caressait machinalement de la main gauche, en d�tachant de l'autre la mentonni�re de son casque, et r�p�tait de temps en temps: - Te voil�, Rask ! te voil� ! - Enfin il s'�cria: - Mais qui donc t'a ramen� ? - Avec votre permission, mon capitaine.....
En 1818, l'auteur de ce livre avait seize ans et il paria qu'il écrirait un volume en quinze jours. Il fit Bug-Jargal. C'est un roman d'aventures décrivant les péripéties de Léopold d'Auvernay, jeune officier de l'armée française, qui part pour Saint-Domingue, colonie française à l'époque, pour retrouver sa promise, fille d'un colon français, et l'épouser. Cependant la veille de son mariage les esclaves, menés par le mystérieux Bug-Jargal, se révoltent contre la domination des colons, et sa future épouse se fait enlever par un esclave, de qui Léopold pensait ètre l'ami. Commence ensuite pour Léopold une course-poursuite à travers l'île pour retrouver sa bien-aimée et pour assouvir sa vengeance...
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