Victor HUGO. 11 autograph manuscripts, pasted in a notebook, [ca. 1851-1856]; 11 pages in an oblong notebook 6 x 11 cm, supple black leather with rich gilt and mosaic decoration on the boards. Reunion of "chips", first draft sketches, sometimes crossed out after reuse. Ideas for Napoleon-le-Petit: "pseudo-Bonaparte / pseudo-18 brumaire / finish the summary of indignities and horrors to come / the farce of the Oath". Verse for God (L'Océan d'en haut, v. 1312-1314): "all the steps of man are edges of mysteries / life is the frightening avenue of the sphynxes / pride and science, eyes of peacock, eyes of lynx / lead to the same abortion" Note in the hand of Juliette Drouet: "written the night without light Guernsey January 1856". Verses noted in the margins of a newspaper: "You were born a star / It is that you had skirts of a canvas ".... "Are you therefore blinded by the dazzle? Notes for Histoire d'un crime (II, 3; and note on V. Schoelcher in the "Cahier complémentaire"): "There were some inhabitants at the barricade. - Is it the empire that you want, shouts Schoelcher to the people"... "during this time Bastide was telling"... Etc.