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In 1829, a slim book appeared in France. It was called ''Le dernier jour d'un condamné'', in English, ''[[The Last Day of a Condemned Man]]'', [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|and the plot conformed to the title]]. That topic, augured by the title, was covered in such heretofore unthinkable detail that, at the time of its publication, it caused something of a scandal among the reading public.
The short novel, whose first edition was published anonymously, was written by a man who, sick of shutting himself in and imagining himself in the shoes of the condemned man everytime he saw the people of Paris rushing to the spectacle of a public execution on the Place de Grève, decided to try to do something about it. His name was [[Victor Hugo]]. ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' was his first mature work. It is not as well known as some of his [[Les Misérables (novel)|other]] [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|writings]].
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