Between Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Visions of Fraternity. The Prefigurative Role of the French Revolution in Victor Hugo’s introduction to «Paris guide» (1867) and Robert Hamerling’s «Danton und Robespierre» (1871)

This article analyses the ways in which fraternity is imagined Victor Hugo’s introductory essay to Paris guide (1867) and Danton und Robespierre (1871), by Austrian poet Robert Hamerling. Both texts use French Revolution as a pretext articulate cosmopolitan vision that has be understood reaction political tensions prelude aftermath of Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). By reconstructing how Hugo Hamerling intervene broader debate on question nationalism internationalism, this sheds more light literature was vehicle for views.