Victor Hugo
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![]() Woodburytype o Victor Hugo bi Étienne Carjat, 1876. | |
Born | Victor Marie Hugo 26 Februar 1802 Besançon, Doubs, Fraunce |
Dee'd | 22 Mey 1885 Paris, Fraunce | (aged 83)
Restin place | Panthéon, Paris, Fraunce |
Thrift | Writer, poet, politeecian |
Naitionality | French |
Alma mater | Varsity o Paris |
Period | 19t century |
Genre | Novel, dramaturgy, theatre, poetry, essay, drawin |
Leeterar muivement | Romanticism |
Notable warks | |
Years active | 1829–1883 |
Spoose | Adèle Foucher (m. 1822; her daith 1868) |
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Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 Februar 1802 – 22 Mey 1885) wis a French poet, novelist, an dramatist o the Romantic muivement. Hugo is conseedert tae be ane o the greatest an best-kent French writers. Ootside o Fraunce, his maist famous warks are the novelles Les Misérables, 1862, an The Hunchback o Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In Fraunce, Hugo is kent primarily for his poetry collections, sic as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) an La Légende des siècles (The Legend o the Ages).
Hugo wis at the forefront o the romantic leeterar muivement wi his play Cromwell an drama Hernani. Mony o his warks hae inspired muisic, baith in his lifetime an efter his daith, includin the muisicals Notre-Dame de Paris an Les Misérables. He produced mair nor 4,000 drawins in his lifetime, an campaigned for social causes sic as the aboleetion o caipital punishment.
Tho a committit ryalist whan he wis young, Hugo's views chynged as the decades passed, an he becam a passionate supporter o republicanism; his wirk titches upon maist o the poleetical an social issues an the airtistic trends o his time. He is buiried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy haes been honoured in mony weys, includin his portrait bein placed on French siller.
- Victor Hugo
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- 19t-century French dramatists an playwrichts
- 19t-century French novelists
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- Varsity o Paris alumni
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- Buirials at the Panthéon, Paris
- Fowk eddicatit at Instituto San Isidro