Victor Hugo

Novelist

Victor Hugo was born in birthhouse of Victor Hugo, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France on February 26th, 1802 and is the Novelist. At the age of 83, Victor Hugo biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
February 26, 1802
Nationality
France
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birthhouse of Victor Hugo, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Death Date
May 22, 1885 (age 83)
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
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Drawer, Essayist, Illustrator, Librettist, Memoirist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Politician, Travel Writer, Writer
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Adèle Foucher, ​ ​(m. 1822; died 1868)​
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Joseph Léopold Hugo, Sophie Trébuchet
Victor Hugo Life

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802-1882) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic period.

Hugo is considered one of France's most popular and well-known writers.

Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831, are two of France's most popular books.

Hugo is best known for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages), which are both available in France. Hugo's play Cromwell and drama Hernani were at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement.

Many of his creations have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including Les Misérables and Notre Dame de Paris.

During his lifetime, he made more than 4,000 drawings and campaigned for social causes, including the abolishment of capital punishment. Hugo, who was a committed royalist when he was young, changed as the decades passed, and he became a vocal proponent of republicanism; his work touches on the majority of the political and social concerns as well as the cultural trends of his time.

He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris.

His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being engraved on French currency.

Early life

Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besançon, Eastern France, on February 26th. He was Joseph Léopold Hugo (1774–1828), a general in the Napoleonic army, and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821), and Joseph Trébuchet (1798–1837). Victor Hugo's grandfather was a wood merchant in Nancy, where the Hugo family came from Nancy, Lorraine. At fourteen, Léopold was enlisted in the army of Revolutionary France. He was an abolitionist and a ardent supporter of the monarchy, who appeared after the monarchy's abdication in 1792. Sophie, Victor's mother, was loyal to the deposed dynasty but she would declare her children to be Protestants. They married in Châteaubriant, just a few miles from Nantes, in 1796, and the following year.

Sophie had three children in four years after Hugo's father was an officer in Napoleon's army. On a trip from Lunéville to Besançon, Léopold Hugo told his son that he had been born on one of the Vosges Mountains' highest peaks. "This elevated source" continues to have "effects on you," the muse has continued to be sublime, according to the author. Hugo appeared to have been born on June 24, 1861, which is the source of Jean Valjean's prisoner number 24601.

Hugo de Cogolludo y Sigüenza by the then King of Spain Joseph Bonaparte in 1810, but it appears that the Spanish name was not recognized in France. Hugo referred to himself as a viscount later in life, but it was "Vicomte Victor Hugo" that he was formally designated as a peer of France on April 13th.

Sophie, weary of the constant moving required by military life, escaped temporarily from Léopold and settled in Paris in 1803 with her children; she first encountered General Victor Fanneau de La Horie, Hugo's godfather, who had been a comrade of General Hugo's during the campaign in Vendee. Leopold, now Colonel Hugo, Governor of the province of Avellino, was born in October 1807, and he renamed him in October 1807. Victor was taught mathematics by Giuseppe de Cagnazzi, the elder brother of Italian scientist Luca de Sagnazzi. Sophie found out that Leopold had been living in secrecy with Catherine Thomas, an Englishwoman.

Hugo's father was sent to Spain shortly to combat the Peninsular War. Madame Hugo and her children were taken back to Paris in 1808, where they escaped to 12 Impasse des Feuillantines, an isolated mansion in a deserted quarter of the Seine's left bank. Victor Fanneau de La Horie, who had plotted to restore the Bourbons and been condemned to death a few years ago, was hiding in a chapel at the back of the garden. Victor and his brothers were mentored by him.

The family immigrated to Spain in 1811, when they met their father. Victor and his brothers were sent to school in Madrid at the Real Colegio de San Antonio de Abad, although Sophie returned to Paris on her own, now officially divorced from her husband. Victor Fanneau de La Horie, an 1812 French immigrant, was arrested and executed in 1812. Victor and Eugene were taken from their mother and placed by their father in the Pension Cordier, a private boarding school in Paris, where Victor and Eugène remained for three years while still attending lectures at Lycée Louis le Grand in February 1815.

Hugo wrote in his diary on July 10th: "I shall be Chateaubriand or nothing" "I shall be Chateaubriand or nothing" later that day. He wrote a poem for a competition run by the Academie Française in 1817, for which he was given an honorable mention. Academics denied that he was only fifteen years old. Victor and his mother moved to 18 rue des Petits-Augustins the next year and began attending law school. Victor fell in love and became engaged, against his mother's wishes, to his childhood friend Adèle Foucher. Sophie Trebuchet died in June 1821, and Léopold married Catherine Thomas, his long-time mistress, a month later. Victor married Adèle the following year. Victor and his brothers began publishing Le Conservateur littéraire in 1819.

Political life and exile

Hugo was finally elected to the Académie française in 1841 after three failed attempts, solidifying his position in the field of French arts and letters. A group of French academicians, including Étienne de Jouy, was fighting against "romantic change" and had managed to postpone Victor Hugo's election. He became more involved in French politics after this.

Hugo's appointment as a pair of France in 1845, where he protested the death penalty and social injustice, as well as the right of the press and self-government for Poland.

Hugo was elected as a conservative to the National Assembly of the Second Republic in 1848. He broke with the conservatives in 1849 when he delivered a sarcastic speech calling for the end of hunger and poverty. Other addresses called for universal suffrage and free education for all children. Hugo's fight to abolish the death penalty was well-known around the world.

Hugo openly declared Louis Napoleon III (Napoleon III) a traitor to France when he seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary government. He moved to Brussels, then Jersey, after being banned from supporting a Jersey newspaper that had mocked Queen Victoria. He and his family then settled in Hauteville, Guernsey, where he lived in exile from October 1855 to 1870.

Hugo wrote his famous political pamphlets against Napoleon III, Napoléon le Petit, and Histoire d'un crime while exiled. The pamphlets were outlawed in France, but they had a major effect in France. Les Misérables, 1853; Les Contemplations, 1859), and La Légende des siècles, 1859), Guernsey's best work during his time in Guernsey, including Les Misérables, 1853.

Victor Hugo, like most of his contemporaries, justified colonialism in terms of a civilizing project and putting an end to the slave trade on the Barbary coast. Hugo said "God gives Africa to Europe, Take it!" to civilize the country's indigenous people in a speech delivered on 18 May 1879 during a banquet to commemorate slavery's abolition.

This may explain in part why, amid of his deep interest in and involvement in political affairs, he remained silent on the Algerian issue. Hugo reported the atrocities committed by the French Army during Algeria's conquest of Algeria as shown by his diary, but he never denounced them publicly; nevertheless, in Les Misérables, "Algeria is too brutally defeated, with more barbarism than civilization."

Victor Schlcher, a writer who fought for slavery and French colonialism in the Caribbean, began to campaign against slavery and French colonialism in the Caribbean, he began campaigning against slavery. Hugo wrote: Slavery in the United States in a letter sent to American abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman on July 6, 1851. This republic has a right to lead by example no longer. The United States must renounce slavery or lose their rights. Hugo wrote a letter in 1859 requesting that the US government save abolitionist John Brown's life: "Assurely, if insurrection is ever a sacred duty, it must be directed against Slavery." Hugo has decided to diffuse and sell "Le Pendu," an homage to John Brown, so one could "keep alive in souls the memory of this liberator of our black brothers, as well as Christ."

Victor Hugo, a novelist, diarist, and member of Parliament, vied for the removal of the death penalty as a lifelong protester. The Last Day of a Condemned Man, published in 1829, examines a man who is awaiting execution; several entries of Things Seen (Choses Views), he wrote in 1848, included his firm condemnation of what he considers as a barbaric sentence; "You have overthrown the throne," the resigner wrote in 1848; seven months after the 1848 Revolution. [...] The scaffold has been overthrown. His name was credited with the deposing of the death penalty from Geneva, Portugal, and Colombia's constitutions. He had also appealed to Benito Juárez to protect the recently imprisoned emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, but to no avail.

Though Napoleon III granted an amnesty to all political prisoners in 1859, Hugo declined, fearing that his oppositions of the government would have to be curtified. It was only after Napoleon III resigned from office that Hugo proclaimed his return to his homeland in 1870, where he was immediately elected to the National Assembly and the Senate in 1870.

He was in Paris during the Prussian Army's siege of 1870, most famously eating animals provided to him by the Paris Zoo. He wrote in his diary that he had been reduced to "eating the unknown" as the siege continued and food became ever more limited.

Victor Hugo, the revolutionary government that took power on 18 March 1871 and was deposed on May 28 in Paris, was remarkably critical of both sides of the war. "In short, this Commune is as stupid as the National Assembly is ferocious," he wrote in his diary on September 9th. Folly from both directions." Nevertheless, he made a point of expressing his sympathy to members of the Commune who had been subjected to brutal persecution. He had been in Brussels since March 22, 1871, when Victor Hugo, the Belgian newspaper l'Independence, announced that the government would not give political asylum to the Communards, which could result in jail, banishment, or execution. The writer's house erupted so much riot in the evening that a crowd of fifty to sixty men attempted to force their way into Victor Hugo's house screaming "Death to Victor Hugo!"

Hang him!

Death to the scoundrel!

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Victor Hugo, who said that "a war between Europes is a civil war," was a keen supporter for the establishment of the United States of Europe. In a speech he delivered during the International Peace Congress in Paris in 1849, he reiterated his views on the issue. Hugo's presidency made the Congress a worldwide success, drawing such luminaries as Frederic Bastiat, Charles Gilpin, Richard Cobden, and Henry Richard. Hugo was born as a well-known public speaker and sparked international recognition, and the conference also promoted the possibility of the "United States of Europe." He planted the "oak of the United States of Europe" in the garden of Hauteville House, where he remained during his exile in Guernsey from 1856 to 1870. In his sons' journal Le Rappel, the Turkish massacres of Balkan Christians in 1876 inspired him to write Pour la Serbie (For Serbia). This address is now considered one of the European ideal's founding acts.

He was a founding member of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, which later became the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works due to his concern for the rights of artists and copyright. However, Pauvert's published archives confirm that "any work of art has two authors: the people who confusely feel something, a designer who translates these feelings, and those who revive his image of that feeling. "The people should have the right to return to the other when one of the authors dies." He was one of the first supporters of the concept of domaine public payant, under which a nominal fee would be charged for copying or performing works in the public domain, and it would be turned into a joint fund dedicated to supporting artists, particularly young people.

Personal life

In October 1822, Hugo married Adèle Foucher. Despite their respective lifestyles, the two people lived together for nearly 46 years until she died in August 1868. Hugo, who had been barred from France for the time, was unable to attend her funeral in Villequier, where their daughter Léopoldine was buried. Adèle lived in 1830 to 1837, and writer Charles-Augustin Sainte Beuve was a consultant and writer.

Adèle and Victor Hugo had their first child, Léopold, in 1823, but the boy died in infancy. Léopoldine, the couple's second child, was born on August 28, 1824, and Adèle on 28 July 1830.

Léopoldine, Hugo's oldest and favorite daughter, died in 1843 at the age of 19 shortly after her marriage to Charles Vacquerie. When the boat she was in overturned on September 4, she drowned in the Seine at Villequier. Her young husband died trying to save her. Hugo was traveling in the south of France at the time, when he first learned of Léopoldine's death from a newspaper he read in a café.

In his famous poem "villequier" he describes his shock and apprehension.

Afterward, he wrote numerous poems about his daughter's life and death, and at least one biographer says he never fully recovered from it. "Demain, dès l'aube" (Tomorrow, at Dawn) is his most famous poem, in which he describes visiting her grave.

After Napoleon III's coup d'état at the end of 1851, Hugo decided to live in exile. Hugo lived in Brussels briefly in 1851, then to Jersey (1852–1855) and then to Guernsey in 1855, where he stayed until Napoleon III's demise in 1870. Although Napoleon III declared a general amnesty in 1859, under which Hugo could have safely returned to France, the author stayed in exile until the French Revolution in 1870, which was a result of France's defeat at the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War. Hugo lived in Guernsey from 1872 to 1873, then returning to France for the remainder of his life following the Siege of Paris from 1870 to 1871. Hugo took custody of his grandchildren Jeanne and Georges-Victor in 1871, after his son Charles' death.

Juliette Drouet lived her entire life until her death in 1883, and she never married her again until her wife died in 1868. In exile on Guernsey, she followed him on his numerous trips and followed him. Hugo rented a house near Hauteville House, which is her family's home. She wrote some 20,000 letters in which she expressed her passion or vented her rage over her womanizing husband. Hugo feared the worst on September 25, 1870-19 September 1870 (December 28th, 1870-19 January 1871). The following was a note left by his children: "All my children were left a note."

"J.D." I saved my life in December 1851. For me, she was exiled. Never has her soul been forsaken mine. Allow those who have adored me love her. Please respect her by those who have adored me. "She is my widow." V.H.

Léonie d'Aunet, a married woman, had been involved in a love affair with Hugo for more than seven years. Both were captured in adultery on July 5, 1845. Hugo, who had been a member of the Chamber of Peers since April, avoided condemnation, but his mistress had to spend two months in jail and six in a convent. Hugo made a point of helping her financially many years after her divorce.

Hugo did not have a clue about his sensuality until a few weeks before his death. He wanted a diverse group of women of all ages, be it poetesses, actresses, scholars, encouragers, servants, or activists, such as Louise Michel, for sexual pursuits. Both a graphomaniac and erotomaniac, he systematically revealed his casual activities using his own code, as Samuel Pepys did, to ensure that they would remain anonymous. For example, he resorted to Latin abbreviations (osc. ). (Misma) for kisses (or to Spanish). Mismas cosas: The same as before. Same stuff (cystals) as before. Homophones are common: Seins (Breasts) become Saint; Pole (Stove) refers to Poils (Pubic hair). Analogy has also helped him to conceal the true meaning: her breasts, not a woman's Suisses (Swiss) are her breasts, and Switzerland is renowned for its milk. Joie (Happiness) in his diary after a rendezvous with a young woman named Laetitia. If he's a t.n. (toute nue) He meant she stripped naked in front of him. S.B. 'S the initials S. B. Sarah Bernhardt was discovered in November 1875, possibly referring to her.

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Victor Hugo Career

Career

Hugo's first book appeared the year after his marriage (Han d'Islande, 1823), and his second in 1826 (Bug-Jargal, 1826). He published five more volumes of poetry between 1829 and 1840, including Les Chants intérieures, 1831; Les Chants de la crépuscule, 1838; Les Chants intérieures, 1835); and Les Rayons et les Ombres, 1840), establishing his reputation as one of the finest elegiac and lyric poets of his day.

Hugo was profoundly influenced by François-René de Chateaubriand, the influential figure in Romanticism's literary movement and France's pre-eminent literary figure in the early nineteenth century, as well as many young writers of his generation. Hugo promised to be "Chateaubriand or nothing" in his youth, and his life would be similar to that of his predecessor in many ways. Hugo, like Chateaubriand, became interested in politics (though mostly as a proponent of Republicanism), and was forced into exile due to his political convictions.

Hugo's early life, with its precocious passion and eloquence, attracted success and fame at an early age. His first collection of poetry (Odes et poésies diverses) was published in 1822 when he was just 20 years old and earned him a royal pension from Louis XVIII. Despite the fact that the poems were praised for their spontaneous enthusiasm and fluency, Hugo's collection, which came four years later in 1826 (Odes et Ballades), revealed him to be a master of lyric and inventive song.

Victor Hugo's first mature work of fiction was first published in February 1829 by Charles Gosselin without the author's name and represented the growing social conscience that would fuel his later works. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man) would have a major influence on later writers, such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Claude Gueux, a documentary short story about a real-life murderer who had been executed in France, appeared in 1834 and was later considered by Hugo to be a precursor to his great social injustice, Les Misérables.

Hugo became the figurehead of the Romantic literary movement with the plays Cromwell (1827) and Hernani (1830). Hernani announced the appearance of French romanticism: It was received at the Comédie-Française as romantics and traditionalists clashed over the play's deliberate disregard for neo-classical legislation. Hugo's fame as a playwright soared with subsequent productions, including Marion Delorme (1831), The King Amuses Himself (1832) and Ruy Blas (1838). Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) was released in 1831 and quickly translated into other European languages. One of the book's effects was to shame the City of Paris into restoring Notre Dame's long-neglected Cathedral, which was attracting thousands of visitors who had read the famous book. The book also prompted a renewed interest in pre-Renaissance buildings, which were then converted to be meticulously maintained.

Hugo began planning a major book about social misery and injustice in the 1830s, but Les Misérables was not published until 1862, but Hugo's full 17 years were required for them to be successful and eventually published in 1862. In one of Hugo's early stories, "Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné" went to Toulon in 1839 and took extensive notes, but he did not start writing the book until 1845. He wrote in large block letters a potential name for his hero, "JEAN TRÉJEAN," on one of his notebooks. Tréjean became Jean Valjean when the book was finally published.

Hugo was acutely aware of the book's quality, as shown by a letter he sent to his publisher, Albert Lacroix on March 23rd 1862. "My conviction is that this book will be one of the peaks, if not the crowning point of my career." Les Misérables' publication attracted the highest bidder. Lacroix and Verboeckhoven, Belgium's publishing house, undertook an advertising campaign that was unprecedented for the time, issuing press releases about the work a full six months before it was published. It was also the first part of the novel "Fantine"), which was published simultaneously in major cities. Installments of the book sold out within hours and had a major effect on French society.

The critical institution was generally hostile to the novel; Taine discovered it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly screamed for its vulgarity, Gustave Flaubert discovered within "neither truth nor greatness," the Goncourt brothers sluggish, and Baudelaire slammed it in private as "repulsive and inept." Les Misérables were so popular with the masses that the issues it highlighted were soon on the National Assembly of France. The book is still his best-known piece today. It is widely distributed and has been used for film, television, and stage shows around the world.

An apocryphal tale has circulated, relating Hugo's shortest friendship in history as being between Hugo and his publisher Hurst and Blackett in 1862. Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was first published. He sparked the reaction to the job by delivering a single-character telegram to his publisher, asking if?

The publisher replied with a single !

This is to show that it is a success. Hugo's new book, Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Toilers of the Sea), was released in 1866, but he moved away from social and political concerns. The book was well received, perhaps due to Les Misérables' previous success. Hugo, a devoted visitor to Guernsey, where he spent 15 years of exile, tells a man who is attempting to win the permission of his father's father by rescuing his ship and escaping with a treasure trove of money. Hugo is the sea's most mythical creature of the sea. One of Hugo's biographers describes it as a "metaphor for the 19th century's industrialization, artistic genius, and laborious efforts to banish the material world's immanent evil."

Guernsey's word, squid (pieuvre, also used to octopus), was supposed to enter the French language as a result of its use in the novel. Hugo's new book, L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs), was released in 1869 and depicts a pessimistic portrait of the aristocracy. The novel was not as popular as his previous efforts, and Hugo himself began to reflect on the increasing distance between himself and literary contemporaries such as Flaubert and Émile Zola, whose realist and naturalist books were now exceeding his own success.

Quatre-treize (Ninety-Three), Hugo's last book, dealt with a subject that Hugo had previously avoided: the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Although Hugo's success at the time of its appearance, many now regard Ninety-Three as a work on par with Hugo's best-known books.

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As Michel Roux Jr's ashes the contents of his recently closed two Michelin-starred restaurant go up for auction, vintage wines from Le Gavroche will sell for up to £12,000 a bottle

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