# Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné is issued against the death penalty as a public novella

Date: 1829

## The fact

In 1829 [Hugo](/people/victor-hugo) published Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné, a public novella that makes the scaffold a first-person civic problem.

It is one event.

## Context

A novella is not a repeal. Split 1879 Africa as a different humanitarian file.

Victor Hugo’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Gutenberg’s English and Gallica independently present the 1829 condemned-man book.

Official or archival record: The Last Day of a Condemned Man — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A bestselling anti-scaffold novella is a documented check on punitive justice.

1829 is not 1834 Claude Gueux only; that is another row if scored — here the first book is enough.

A bestselling anti-scaffold novella is a documented check on punitive justice.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1829 public issue. Not established: that 1829 repealed French capital punishment (it did not).

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Victor Hugo.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Victor Hugo: https://factrail.ai/people/victor-hugo

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7838
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hug-dernier-jour-1829