The work that is produced by a revered individual, regardless of what it entails or who it may offend, is art and should be addressed as so, freeing any such person of the sanction they have received due to the publicized piece; this notion was held by many during the time of Victor Hugo’s exile, though no one dared come forth and express this to the ruler of France, Napoleon III. One such woman, who held this belief close to her, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote a letter to the infamous king but did not send it. Within the entreating missive, Browning, irradiates the phenomenal qualities the emperor of France possessed in an attempt to pardon Hugo for his transgressions. This is established in a plethora of ways, the most notable of which