Victor Hugo: Selections on war

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

French writers on war and peace

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Victor Hugo: At last, a peaceful strain!

Victor Hugo: The black eagle waits with claws outspread

Victor Hugo: Brute war, dire birth of hellish race

Victor Hugo: Common-sense opposition to war

Victor Hugo: The face of Cain, hunters of men, sublime cutthroats

Victor Hugo: From fratricide to fraternity

Victor Hugo: Glorious war does not exist; peace, that sublime, universal desire

Victor Hugo: The history of war and the history of peace

Victor Hugo: I prefer poet to marshals’ cannonade

Victor Hugo: The inkstand is to destroy the sword

Victor Hugo: International Peace Congress 1851

Victor Hugo: Peace will supersede war, perhaps sooner than people think

Victor Hugo: The poet outlives the man of war

Victor Hugo: War, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity

Victor Hugo: What greater aim could there be than civilization through peace?

Anatole France on Victor Hugo: People to substitute justice and peace for war and bloodshed