Les Miserables -- Let the seances end...for now... Episode 12 (6 of 8).

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Starting in September 1853 Victor Hugo, exiled to an island off the coast of France because the now-Emperor Louis Napoleon has told the army to shoot Hugo on sight, has been holding a series of seances.  There are been hundreds of them.  They have all been transcribes.  Scores of people have participated.  Many have served as amateur mediums.

 he results have been spectacular; they’ve made contact with their tragically deceased daughter, and other ghosts on the island, and some of history’s most important figures, from Plato to Jesus to Shakespeare.

And then, in October of 1855, the seances abruptly stop.  Why?  Who ended them?  The spirits told Victor Hugo to pick up his unfinished manuscript and get it published…was that the reason the novel came into being?  Does the end of the seances say something about whether the seances were real.  WERE the seances real?  Did spirits from beyond the grave come to speak to Victor Hugo?  We might not catch ‘em, but we will chase those ghosts as far as we can in this episode of THM.

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