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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, and the leading figure of French Romanticism. Born in Besançon, he is best known abroad for the novels Les Misérables (1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), published in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In France his standing rests first on his poetry, including Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles. Politically he moved from youthful royalism to committed republicanism, spent the years of the Seco...