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Show I Monument to Victor Hugo. I One nf tho principal features of tho great Hugo centenary celebration In Franco waa the dedication of Uurrlas' atattie of the poet. There waa an Inimense concourse to witness the Inauguration of the monument, mon-ument, erected on the Place Victor Hugo, In the Passay quarter, within a stone's throw of the house, lit Avenue Ave-nue Victor Hugo. In which the poet died. Addresses were delivered by the President of ,uo municipality and tho chairman of the monument committee, glorifying the memory of Victor Hugo. The monument, which la the work of Louis llnrrlus, la In bronxe and stono It represents Victor Hugo seated on a rock, with Drama and Poetry at hla feet offering him a lyre. |