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October 17, 2010 | History

Victor Hugo

26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.

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Accessible book, Fiction, History, Drama, Description and travel, Protected DAISY, Correspondence, In library, French language, Ex-convicts, French Authors, Orphans, Translations into English, Social life and customs, Biography, Exhibitions, Readers, Authors, French, Capital punishment, France in fiction, OverDrive, Travel, Classic Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Description et voyages
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France, Paris (France), Belgium, Paris, Alps, Fleuve Rhin, Vallée du Rhin, Haiti, Italy, Pyrenees, Pyrenees (France and Spain), Rhine River Valley, (France), Belgique, Channel Islands, Iceland, Luxembourg, Rhine River, Rhine River and Valley, Spain, Stratford-upon-Avon (England), Switzerland, Toulon, Toulon Prison, Waterloo
People
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Napoleon III Emperor of the French (1808-1873), Juliette Drouet (1806-1883), Voltaire (1694-1778), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Adèle Hugo (1806-1868), Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu duc de (1585-1642), Charles Nodier (1780-1844), Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), Marion Delorme (1613-1650), Adèle Foucher (1806-1868), Amy Robsart Dudley Lady (1532?-1560), Ernest F. Langley (1874-1954), John Brown (1800-1859), Mary I Queen of England (1516-1558), Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886), Charles Victor Hugo (1826-1871), Claude Mediavilla, Francis I King of France (1494-1547), Gabriel-Honoré de Riqueti Mirabeau comte de (1749-1791), Jacques Imbert- Galloix (1807-1828), Javert, Javier Peñalosa, Jean Valjean
Time
19th century, Revolution, 1789-1799, Louis XI, 1461-1483, To 1515, Coup d'état, 1851, 1789-1900, Second Republic, 1848-1852, 1492-1559, 1830-1848, 1848-1852, Reign of Terror, 1793-1794, Revolution, 1791-1804, 1815, 1832, 1848-1852 (2e République), 1852-1870, 1870-1940, 19e siècle, 20th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, Medieval period, 987-1515, Second Empire, 1852-1870, Siege, 1870-1871

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  • Victor Hugo
  • Hugo Victor
  • Hugo, Victor-Marie, Comte
  • victor hugo
  • Victor Marie Hugo
  • Victor HUGO
  • VICTOR HUGO
  • HUGO, VICTOR, 1802-1885.
  • VIctor Hugo
  • Victor-Marie Hugo
  • Hugo, Victor Marie comte.
  • Hugo, Victor Marie comte

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October 17, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
October 17, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
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