La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel.
C’est la colombe unie à l’aigle dans le ciel,
C’est la grâce tremblante à la force appuyée,
C’est ta main dans ma main doucement oubliée.
- VICTOR HUGO
Life is a flower, of which love is the honey.
It’s the dove and the eagle united in the sky.
It’s grace trembling at insistent force,
It’s your hand sweetly forgotten in mine.
These lines come from Hugo’s Le roi s’amuse, a romantic play in verse that was published in 1832. Le roi s’amuse is a romantic drama in five acts and in verse by Victor Hugo, that premiered in Paris on November 22, 1832 at the Comédie-Française (located near the Louvre museum and next to the Palais Royal).
The play was considered a failure and banned the very next day. Hugo sued the Comédie-Française for censorship but ultimately Victor gave up the appeal. There was an attempted revival of the play in 1882 for the poet’s 80th birthday, but it was not a success. It’s been considered a « cursed play » ever since.
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