“Oriental studies have never been so intensive.... In the cen…”

“Oriental studies have never been so intensive.... In the century of Louis XIV one was a Hellenist, today one is an Orientalist.... The Orient has become a sort of general preoccupation.... We shall see great things. The old Asiatic barbarism may not be as devoid of higher men as our civilization would like to believe.”

— Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo. in Jean Biès, Littérature française et pensée hindoue des origines à 1950. quoted in India’s Impact on French Thought and Literature: Eighteenth to Twentieth Century by Michel Danino (Published in Critical Practice, X:2, June 2003, pp. 46-56)

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