'Men are so made that, in a salon, you could be caked with mud all over, except for your shoes. In a salon, to be welcomed with open arms, you are asked to be irreproachable in one thing only. Your conscience? No. Your boots.' -Victor Hugo
Best known as one of the greatest French writers ever to pick up a pen, Hugo was also committed to human rights and opposed to all forms of barbarity. To that end, Hugo has been credited with seeing to it that the death penalty was removed from the constitutions of both Portugal and Colombia.
