The famous saying is "Two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace, one ransacked the Old Summer Palace, and the other burned it to the ground."

Hugo had a profound understanding and emotion of the destruction of the Old Summer Palace. He once expressed his praise for the Old Summer Palace and his regret for its destruction in his writings. "Two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace, one ransacked the Old Summer Palace, and the other burned it" is one of the most famous lines.

Victor Hugo, a representative writer of positive romantic literature in France in the early 19th century, a representative figure of humanism, an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature, is known as the "Shakespeare of France".