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Historical novel.
Bug-Jargal (1826; first published as a short story in 1819) is an early novel by French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885). It describes the friendship between the enslaved African prince Bug-Jargal and Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave revolt in Santo Domingo of August, 1791, that would eventually lead to the creation of the republic of Haiti in 1804. Bug-Jargal, black slave and son of a king, is
a man "of the noblest moral and intellectual character, passionately
in love with a white woman, yet tempering the wildest passion with the
deepest respect... There is no reader of the tale, who can forget the
entrancing interest of the scenes in the camp of the insurgent chief Biassou,
or the death-struggle between Habibrah and D'Auverney, upon the brink
of the cataract. The latter, in particular, is drawn with such intense
force, that the reader seems almost to be a witness of the changing fortunes
of the fight, and can hardly breathe freely till he comes to the close."
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