La legende des Siecles

The Legend of the Ages is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, conceived as a monumental work intended to depict the history and evolution of humankind. The Legend of the Ages is considered the only true French epic and, according to Baudelaire, the only possible modern epic. It is the history of humankind as conceived by a poet committed to the symbolic truth of myths. A thread connects all these poems, the mysterious thread of the human labyrinth: progress.