"What comes out of it is freedom!": in 1850, Victor Hugo defended universal suffrage against his own camp
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Victor Hugo, then deputy for the Seine, speaks at the podium of the National Assembly in July 1851. Bridgeman Images
La Croix recounts three great parliamentary speeches on democracy. Today, the celebrated writer Victor Hugo, who was also a committed politician. On May 21, 1850, while a member of parliament during the Second Republic, he defended universal suffrage, the keystone of democracy, against his own camp, which sought to restrict this right.
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