What kind of person is Guizot?
Arthur initially thought Hugo would angrily criticize this historically criticized gentleman with a passionate attitude, but to his surprise, Hugo's portrayal of Guizot seemed completely different from what the books described.
As a leader of French Romanticist literature, Hugo's impression of Guizot was not only positive but rather favorable.
At least in Hugo's view of 1833, Guizot was a downright gentleman.
Guizot's maternal grandfather was a member of the Mountain Party during the Great Revolution period and had served as the head of Gaul Province, while his paternal grandfather had been an underground Priest of Calvinism. Both paternal and maternal relatives were highly intellectual.
But this didn't mean Guizot's childhood was pleasant; during the Great Revolution period, even these upper-class families were often in turmoil.
Guizot's father was arrested by the Jacobin Party due to accusations of being a Girondist.
