AUTHOR | VICTOR HUGO
Victor Hugo | Writer, poet, politician
Bio:
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). He also produced more than 4,000 drawings, which have since been admired for their beauty, and earned widespread respect as a campaigner for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment. Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism. his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He
Born: 1802-02-26
Born in: Besançon, Doubs, France
Died: 1885-05-22
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“ Music expresses that which cannot be put into words ...
“ Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we ...
“ The realities of life do not allow themselves to be ...
“ Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is t...
“ Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a...
“ The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds l...
“ The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic j...
“ There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious athe...
“ The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that...
“ Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have pro...
“ Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ...
“ Those who do not weep, do not see.
“ He thought her more beautiful than ever, with a beau...
“ Science says the first word on everything, and the l...