Show THANKS TO L LEON EON picks the Isle of Guernsey in the English channel as the place to which he would be to go o as a are recluse re- re cluse recalling the banishment of Victor Hugo by b- Napoleon III Hugo son of a soldier in the first Nn Na- arm army underwent changes in po thinking From his earlier works it is easy to place him Then he successively became be be- came an ardent a vociferous constitutional royalist and later an extreme liberal After the coup of 1852 his denunCiation of Louis Napoleon sent him in flight to Brus Brus- sels and then to Jersey It was during his exile that lie wrote Les and many others of his finest works After the revolution tion he was again in politics usually r on the losing side Resuming his writing he pro his his' least noteworthy works In the midst of his llis political troubles at this time lie le retired unhappy to Brussels but was expelled on account of his defense of the communists On his return to Prance France he continued to enJOY enOy en- en JOY Oy popularity but kept out of political ac ac- 0 Of considerably more interest titan than the finding of in Barbizon in the HIe suburbs of Paris Pari arc some of the persons and events th the incident recalls Admirable reporters to write the story of the taking of the great revolutionist rev rev- would have been Gaboriau or Maurice Mau Mau- rice Le Blanc Living in tIle the Villa lt Ker r Mon lIon ique as M. M I. I his immense mail intrigued the curiosity of the village postman lie He ear car ned his alarm to the mayor maor The rhe police were told and n a highly comic cornie raid followed Forcing Fore Fore- ing the door of the villa the police burst in into into to be confronted by the lean ican nervous with and heavy horn spectacles and with two loaded pistols on his desk Asked who he was lie he told them that though known as lie he was nevertheless I Iam 1 am an old conspirator tor and I am noW lug ing for the fourth The French ench had llad known mown all alo along g where lie he was wasand and had permitted him to find sanctuary in n France safe from his white Russian enemies It had bad spied upon hun hIm in aU all friendliness ns as lie he landed nine ago at Naples then in Corsica at the cure in in Royat and later at and finally thrusting new greatness upon Barbizon Barbizon recalls Corot t Rousseau l land anti and the Barbi Barbizon oll school which included these al and r t t Q of t iq great t P painters t r ho up-d up r 4 I VI much to put upon canvas roundabout the vil- vil il on the fringe of the Fontainebleau-the vii iI lage so beloved too by Robert Louis Louis' Stevenson Steven Steven- son where the forests lured luni for many visits during his wanderings through Germany and France Whether goes into Guernsey or as rumor has hns said back to fo Russia doesn't matter much Wherever he goes lie he will vilI do what lie Ie has been doing since his flight after epochal events in and write write write about his plans for new revolts But if lie he does docs his writing in iii Russia Stalin will ill be watching over his which shoulder id In mal akes cs Guernsey or some other place of isolation see seethe seeni the more likely to attract him |