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...Royalism was replaced by passionate Republicanism. He wrote an ode to the revolutionaries who ousted Charles X (1830). After King Louis-Philippe abdicated (1848), Hugo, now an Academician and ily's insanity. Bethel was judged insane, sent to a sanitarium for 20 years. At that point Sister Lerryn discovered that poor Bethel was not really a Treveryan after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa's." For reasons "we shall never know" Mama had chosen to keep quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sublime Child | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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