Word: raynouard
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...already engrossed in literary matters. At 14 he had translated much of Virgil, was composing "poems in every form, odes, satires, elegies." At 15 he carried off one of the French Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections of a poetic tragedy." (Victor thought it very dull.) At 18 Hugo was famous...
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