Claude Gueux, Victor Hugo

In connection with the French curriculum's "Acting in the City: Individual and Power" study topic for 9th grade, a short realist novel by Victor Hugo, inspired by a true story, to denounce the death penalty, poverty, and social injustice.

A worker sentenced to 5 years in prison for theft is ultimately condemned to death for revolting against the prison workshop director.

The Classiques & Cie Collège edition
Carefully annotated, the novel's text is accompanied by an illustrated dossier, which includes:
- a reading guide, with benchmarks, a 7-step journey through the work, a collection of documents on the theme of prison in literature,
- a documentary investigation: "What was prison like in the 19th century? What is it like today?".