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.
Read more about Victor Hugo: Personal Life, Writings, Political Life and Exile, Religious Views, Victor Hugo and Music, Declining Years and Death, Last Will, Drawings, Memorials, Works
Famous quotes by victor hugo:
“In the domain of art there is no light without heat.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“A reaction: a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)