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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
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Victor Hugo was born on February 26th 1802 and died May 22nd 1885. He was not only a renowned French writer, but also a committed intellectual and an outspoken politician. Join us in...
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Like many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by François-René de Chateaubriand, the founder of Romanticismand France’s pre-eminent literary figure duing the early 1800s. In his youth, Hugo resolved to be “Chateaubriand or nothing," and his life would come to parallel that of his predecessor’s in many ways. Like Chateaub...
Hugo did not achieve such quick success with his works for the stage. In 1827, he published the never-staged verse drama Cromwell, which became more famous for the author's preface than its own worth. The play's unwieldy length was considered "unfit for acting." In his introduction to the work, Hugo urged his fellow artists to free themselves from ...
Victor Hugo's first mature work of fiction appeared in 1829, and reflected the acute social conscience that would infuse his later work. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (“Last Days of a Condemned Man”) would have a profound influence on later writers such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story...
After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was finally elected to the Académie Francaise in 1841, solidifying his position in the world of French arts and letters. Thereafter he became increasingly involved in French politics as a supporter of the Republican form of government. He was elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe in 1841, entering th...
Although raised by his mother as a strict Roman Catholic, Hugo later become extremely anti-clerical and fiercely rejected any connection to the church. On the deaths of his sons Charles and François-Victor, he insisted that they be buried without cross or priest, and in his will made the same stipulation about his own death and funeral. Due in larg...
When Hugo returned to Parisin 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He went on to weather, within a brief period, the Siege of Paris, a mild stroke, his daughter Adèle’s commitment to an insane asylum, and the death of his two sons. His other daughter, Léopoldine, had drowned in a boating accident in 1833, while his wife Adele passed awa...
Hugo was almost as prolific an artist as he was a writer, producing about 4,000 drawings in his lifetime. Originally pursued as a casual hobby, drawing became more important to Hugo shortly before his exile, when he made the decision to stop writing in order to devote himself to politics. Drawing became his exclusive creative outlet during the peri...
Online references
1. Afran, Charles (1997). “Victor Hugo: French Dramatist". Website: Discover France. (Originally published in Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, 1997, v.9.0.1.) Retrieved November 2005. 2. Bates, Alan (1906). “Victor Hugo". Website: Theatre History. (Originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 9. ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 11-13.) Retrieved November 2005. 3. Bates, Alfred (1906). “Hernani". Website: Threa...
Barbou, Alfred (1882). Victor Hugo and His Times. University Press of the Pacific. 2001 paperback edition. ISBN 089875478XBrombert, Victor H. (1984). Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674935500Davidson, A.F. (1912). Victor Hugo: His Life and Work. University Press of the Pacific. 2003 paperback edition. ISBN 1410207781Dow, Leslie Smith (1993). Adele Hugo: La Miserable. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions. ISBN 0864921683Published during Hugo's lifetime
1. Nouvelles Odes(1824) 2. Bug-Jargal(1826) 3. Odes et Ballades(1826) 4. Cromwell(1827) 5. Les Orientales(1829) 6. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné(1829) 7. Hernani(1830) 8. Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) 9. Marion Delorme(1831) 10. Les Feuilles d'automne(Autumn Leaves) (1831) 11. Le roi s'amuse(1832) 12. Lucrèce BorgiaLucrezia Borgia (1833) 13. Marie Tudor(1833) 14. Étude sur Honoré Mirabeau(1834) 15. Littérature et philosophie mêlées(1834)...
Published posthumously
1. Théâtre en liberté(1886) 2. La fin de Satan(1886) 3. Choses vues - 1re série(1887) 4. Toute la lyre(1888) 5. Alpes et Pyrénées(1890) 6. Dieu(1891) 7. France et Belgique(1892) 8. Toute la lyre - nouvelle série(1893) 9. Correspondances - Tome I(1896) 10. Correspondances - Tome II(1898) 11. Les années funestes(1898) 12. Choses vues - 2e série(1900) 13. Post-scriptum de ma vie(1901) 14. Dernière Gerbe(1902) 15. Mille francs de récompense(1934) 16. Océan. Tas de pierres(1942) 17. Pierres(1951)
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, statesman and human rights activist. He played an important part in the Romantic movement in France. Hugo first became famous in France because of his poetry, as well as his novels and his plays.
49383068. The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title By Order of the King from its subtitle in French) [1] is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. It takes place in England beginning in 1690 and extends into the early 18th century reign of Queen Anne.
