Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World
Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World, also known in French as Parcelles d'espoir à l'echo de ce monde, is said to be the modern era’s longest handwritten poem. It was unveiled on August 4, 2006, by French public notary Patrick Huet. The poem has 7,547 verses and is about 1 kilometer long. It is written as an acrostic, with the first letters of each line spelling out the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The unveiling took place in a Lyon courtroom so the work could be considered for Guinness World Records. There are longer epic poems in history, such as the Mahabharata and the Shahnameh, but they are much older.
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