Hugo, Victor,  1802-1885 <br/><br/>
Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Day_of_a_Condemned_Man https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Dernier_Jour_d%27un_condamn%C3%A9  Release date is 2004-11-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Laurent Le Guillou. Image files courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr  Produced by Laurent Le Guillou. Image files courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France gallica.bnf.fr 
<br/><br/> "Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné" by Victor Hugo is a thesis novel published in 1829. The work takes the form of a condemned man's journal during his final twenty-four hours, chronicling approximately five weeks from his trial's verdict to his execution. Through this interior monologue filled with anguished reflections and memories, Hugo creates a political plea against the death penalty, presenting raw testimony of a prisoner's psychological and physical suffering without revealing the man's identity or crime. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>France -- Fiction Prisoners -- France -- Fiction Capital punishment -- Fiction 
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