Sources & credits
Eight works in French and historical English. Two exact editions; each keeps its own text, notes and source notices.
French texts
Victor Hugo and Aloysius Bertrand. Transcriptions adapted from French Wikisource contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0. This license applies to the selected transcriptions and any protectable textual modifications; it does not relicense the independent software or commentary.
Hugo: Ollendorff’s collected Poésie I (1912), pp.709–713, and Poésie II (1909), p.478. Bertrand: Gaspard de la nuit, Mercure de France, 1920, pp.47–48, 53–55, 105–106, 113–114, 162–163, 200–201.
- Les Djinns · contributor history on the source page
- La Ronde sous la cloche · contributor history on the source page
- Le Maçon · contributor history on the source page
- Le Marchand de tulipes · contributor history on the source page
- Padre Pugnaccio · contributor history on the source page
- Le Soir sur l’eau · contributor history on the source page
- La Salamandre · contributor history on the source page
- La tombe dit à la rose · contributor history on the source page
Changes: HTML page markers removed; page-wrapped prose and split stanzas rejoined; headings moved to contents. Selected source pages were collated to retain epigraphs, dedication, dates, punctuation and print variants. Witnessed differences were corrected without modernization. Le Maçon’s Schiller attribution remains separate from its epigraph, with the printed title in italics. The edition retains witnessed print defects. Contributor histories are available from each source page.
English translations
John L. O’Sullivan: The Djinns, in Henry Llewellyn Williams’s Selections from the Poetical Works of Victor Hugo, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., undated, pp.84–87. The catalog’s circa 1887 date is uncertain. Print witness.
Stuart Merrill: six Bertrand pieces, Pastels in Prose, Harper & Brothers, 1890, pp.7–10, 15–18, 21–22, 28–29. Illustrated by Henry W. McVickar. Print witness.
Andrew Lang: The Grave and the Rose, Grass of Parnassus, New Edition, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1892, p.109. Print witness. All sixteen lines are retained; Hugo’s French has twelve.
The historical English contributions have expired U.S. publication terms. Edition-specific evidence does not guarantee reuse in every territory. Original wording and print defects remain; no translation has been revised to agree with its counterpart.
The two windows
Bertrand’s final paragraph of La Ronde sous la cloche is compared with the complete Les Fenêtres by Charles Baudelaire, Petits Poèmes en prose, Michel Lévy Frères, 1869, pp.109–110. Wikisource transcription and contributor history, adapted paragraph markup under CC BY-SA 4.0. The English is Stuart Merrill’s complete translation, Pastels in Prose, 1890, pp.174–175.
Baudelaire’s dedication names Bertrand’s book as an influence. Pairing these windows is an editorial comparison, not a claim of direct derivation.
Pictures
Victor Hugo, Burg en ruines, 1857. Paris Musées / Maisons de Victor Hugo, inv.46; CC0 museum record. Original supplied reproduction 300×216; a later drawing, not an illustration of these poems.
Jacques Callot, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1635; publisher Israël Henriet; third state of five. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.650.600, Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957. Public-domain museum record; Open Access terms. Whole image resized.
Twelve complete pages by Henry W. McVickar from Merrill’s 1890 anthology retain their text, drawings and source credits. These historical printed contributions are public domain in the United States. Their JPEGs travel in both exact language editions and private reading bundles; museum comparisons remain separate application resources.
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