Victorian
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was born at Besançon and was famous as a poet and dramatist before he was thirty; Notre-Dame de Paris appeared in 1831. A peer of France who turned republican, he went into exile after Louis-Napoleon’s coup of 1851 and spent nineteen years in Jersey and Guernsey, where he wrote Les Misérables (1862). He returned to Paris in 1870, was given a state funeral in 1885 and is buried in the Panthéon.
Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).
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Books by Victor Hugo
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