The oaks they are felling for the pyre of Hercules!

Malraux: A Biography - Google Books Result

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Axel Madsen - 2015 - ‎History

The title comes from a Victor Hugo poem: “... oh, what savage noise in the waning light, the oaks felled for Hercules's pyre.” The following year, Malraux ...

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Paul Valéry - 2014 - ‎Poetry

... they make in the twilight, The oaks they are felling for the pyre of Hercules! ... (From the poem A Théophile Gautier, in the posthumous collection of Hugo's ...

Ah! What a brutal sound they made in the twilight,
The oaks they are felling for the pyre of  Hercules!
...


Victor Hugo's poems Toute la lyre, 1888