Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo
Feb 26, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1089
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Episode description
Hugo was insulted by the most powerful critics in France. He put into the preface of a play "his sling and his stone" by which others might slay "the classical Goliath." (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)
Victor Hugo born Feb. 26, 1802.
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