HUGO Victor (1802-1885). autograph manuscript for Le Pape, [1875]; 1 page in-4 (25 x 16 cm) on which are glued 5 strips of various sizes (small lack affecting the beginning of 2 lines). Chips partly crossed out after integration in the poem Le Pape. These "shavings" of first draft present 20 verses, with erasures and corrections; they were crossed out after integration in the manuscript of the poem Le Pape (composed in 1875, published in 1878); they present variants with the published text. "It is voices, it is steps, it is waves, All mingles, clamors, rumors, deep waves, And all walks to its goal under the eternal eyes. The azure is great, the sea is high Do not be small. The scholar has for fault The wrongs of the ignorant. All are shipwrecked. Sleep, you who suffer; you who rule, think. Sleep, virtues, sleep, miseries, sleep, crimes, Under the serenity of the vermilion firmament. Happy the man who thinks, through his sleep, That the stars are on the earth raised To protect the weak and the humble and their broods Who tries to understand while sleeping, and who feels That an immense mysterious council descends! Feel the venerable stars pass over you, And sleep! o living, princes, great, miserable, [...] to the ghost in its shroud similar, [...] trembling of the dream in your slumbers! May the soul watch over you!