Louis Blin Diplomat, doctor in contemporary history, specialist in the Arab world. Books Islam. A Little-Known Poem by Victor Hugo as an Antidote to Islamophobia Louis Blin · December 2020 In a little-known poem from La Légende des siècles, Victor Hugo takes a stand against the media uproar following the assassination of the French and British consuls in the city of Jeddah, then under Ottoman rule, on 15 June 1858, by resolutely inscribing Islam in a universal humanist perspective. (...)
