Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo
Woodburytype o Victor Hugo bi Étienne Carjat, 1876.
Born	Victor Marie Hugo 26 Februar 1802(1802-02-26) Besançon, Doubs, Fraunce
Dee'd	22 Mey 1885(1885-05-22) (aged 83) Paris, Fraunce
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	Hernani The Hunchback o Notre-Dame Ruy Blas Les Châtiments Les Contemplations La Légende des siècles Les Misérables Toilers o the Sea
Years active	1829–1883
Spoose	Adèle Foucher (m. 1822; her daith 1868)
Bairns	Léopold Victor Hugo Léopoldine Hugo Charles Hugo François-Victor Hugo Adèle Hugo
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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.