Аннотация: Victor Hugo and the French political culture. The political science essay.
Victor Hugo and the French political culture. The political science essay.
In a letter dated July 15, 1853, Gustave Flaubert writes to Victor Hugo: "Since you stretch out your hand to me (from) across the ocean, I grab her to shake. I shake with pride the hand that wrote "Notre Dame" and "Napoléon le Petit", the hand that created colossuses and carved bitter cups for traitors." (Quote from the book by Henri Troyat "Gustave Flaubert").
These lines were written before the fall (in 1870) of the regime of Napoleon III, but already after Victor Hugo publicly condemned the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, carried out on December 2, 1851.
President MacMahon, Leon Gambetta, General Boulanger, Marshal Pétain, de Gaulle, Generals Massu and Salan ... - in the biographies of these (and other) politicians we can see the clear influence of Victor Hugo"s creativity, ideas, worldview.
In 1878, the President of the Republic, MacMahon, obeyed the results of the general election (Gambetta 's prediction and his political plan came true).
And 1889, General Boulanger refused to make a coup d 'état.
In July 1940, in an unoccupied zone, Marshal Peten published the "constitutional acts" that abolished, in fact, the constitution of the Third Republic. A criticism of the "Vichy regime", as a rule, is not accompanied by the words combination "the military dictatorship".
The Algiers putsch of 1958 brought de Gaulle to power in 1958 and stimulated the adoption of the 1958 Constitution.
These and other historical facts confirm the moral advantage of the values of constitutional development over the schemes and practices of military and other coups d 'état, military and other dictatorships and an authoritarian methods of rule.
Those facts, as well as many others, from the political life of France make it possible to claim that Victor Hugo became one of the creators of modern French political culture.
Is this political culture optimal? Probably yes. She is attractive - no doubt ...
December 19, 2019 06:55
Translation from Russian into English: December 19, 2019 07:41.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Виктор Гюго и французская политическая культура. Политологический очерк".