Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered the most well-known French Romantic writer. 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. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831, (also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed 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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“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Religion, Society, and Nature—these are the three struggles of man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)