HUGO Victor (1802-1885). L.A.S. "Victor Hugo", Paris, November 5 [1848]; 1 page in-8. The day after the vote of the Constitution of 1848. "The institution of a single assembly seems to me so perilous for the tranquility and prosperity of the country that I did not believe I could vote for a constitution where this seed of calamities is deposited. I deeply hope that the future will prove me wrong"... [This Constitution, adopted on November 4 by the Constituent Assembly, organized power between a single assembly and a President of the Republic, all elected by universal suffrage. On the following December 10, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was elected to the Presidency, and in May 1849, Victor Hugo became representative of the Seine].