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Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26 1802–May 22 1885) was a French author, designer, and artist. He was possibly the most important of the Romantic authors in the French language. His major works include the novels Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables, and a large body of poetry.

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Life and work

Hugo was born in Besançon, Doubs, in the region of Franche-Comté. He lived in exile during the reign of Napoleon III: in Jersey, 1852–1855, and in Guernsey from 1855 until his return to France in 1870.

Although Hugo is to the English-speaking world as a novelist, many sentiment by revealing his own feelings, uniting the voices of mankind, nature and history.

  • To guide the faire flamboyer l'avenir" — to lead the way.

But what makes Hugo one of the greatest French poets lays less in the content of his works—it is quite usual to denounce the flimsiness of his thought and even his bêtise (foolishness)—than in decades.

In his of United Nations of Europe (États-Unis d’Europe), made famous in the 20th century by Winston Churchill and the European Unions worshipped in the Vietnamese religion Cao Dai.

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Published posthumously

  • Théâtre en liberté (1886)
  • La fin de Satan (1886)
  • Choses vues - 1re série (1887)
  • Toute la lyre (1888)
  • Alpes et Pyrénées (1890)
  • Dieu (1891)
  • France et Belgique (1892)
  • Toute la lyre - nouvelle série (1893)
  • Correspondances - Tome I (1896)
  • Correspondances - Tome II (1898)
  • Les années funestes (1898)
  • Choses vues - 2e série (1900)
  • Post-scriptum de ma vie (1901)
  • Dernière Gerbe (1902)
  • Mille francs de récompense (1934)
  • Océan. Tas de pierres (1942)
  • Pierres (1951)

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