AT THE TABLE OF LE GRAND V?FOUR is a collection of private conversations of some of the giants of literature, art and music and politics at signal moments of their lives. Sitting in the restaurant that has been a landmark dining establishment in Paris since 1784, Victor Hugo is told by his mistress of fifty years that she is dying.Friends Baudelaire and Edouard Manet, both slightly drunk on absinthe, come to V?four for lunch and nearly come to blows...