Kdo je hodil z Judith Gautier?

Judith Gautier (25 August 1845, Paris – 26 December 1917) was a French poet, translator and historical novelist, the daughter of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, sister of the noted singer and ballet dancer Carlotta Grisi.

She was married to Catulle Mendès, but soon separated from him and had a brief affair with the composer Richard Wagner during the late summer of 1876. She collaborated with Pierre Loti, the famous novelist, in writing a play, La fille du ciel (1912; English, The Daughter of Heaven), translated and produced under their personal supervision at the Century Theatre, New York City. She was an Oriental scholar and her works dealt mainly with Chinese and Japanese themes. Her translations were among the earliest to bring Chinese and Japanese poetry to the attention of modern European poets. She was a member of the Académie Goncourt (1910–17).

Victor-Marie Hugo, francoski pisatelj, pesnik, dramatik, akademik in državnik, * 26. februar 1802, Besançon, Franche-Comté, † 22. maj 1885, Pariz, Francija.

Hugo velja za najbolj vplivnega romantičnega pisatelja 19. stoletja. S svojimi deli je poživil in razširil francoski literarni jezik. Velja za pomembnega ideologa Evropskega gibanja, premišljevalca Evrope po Napoleonu in zavednega republikanca.

Pisal je zelo raznovrstna dela, ki so obsegala tako romane, gledališčne drame in tragedije, eseje, različne članke, bil je tudi pesnik, fotograf in slikar. Poleg literarnega ustvarjanja je bil pomemben evropski mislec, esejist, ki je z govori, dopisovanji in razmišljanji vplival na Francijo tudi med prisilnim izgonom.

Kot pisec zagovarja konzervativna stališča in vrednote sočutja in pravičnosti, kar je razumljivo v obdobju, ki niha med kraljevino, samodrštvom in republiko. Prizadeval se je tudi za ohranitev tradicionalnih vrednot tako med ljudstvom kot v mednarodni politiki in poudarjal dolžnost in skrbnost delujočih v politiki.