Victor Hugo was a French writer, born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon and died on 22 May 1885 in Paris. Poet, playwright and novelist, he led the Romantic movement in France with the preface to Cromwell and the premiere of Hernani (1830), and wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), the poetry collections Les Contemplations and The Legend of the Ages, and Les Misérables (1862). A peer of France and later a deputy, he opposed Napoleon III and spent nearly twenty years in exile on Jersey and Guernsey. He was buried in the Panthéon after a state funeral.
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Victor Hugo was a French writer, born on 26 February 1802 in Besançon and died on 22 May 1885 in Paris. Poet, playwright and novelist, he led the Romantic movement in France with the preface to Cromwell and the premiere of Hernani (1830), and wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), the poetry collections Les Contemplations and The Legend of the Ages, and Les Misérables (1862). A peer of France and later a deputy, he opposed Napoleon III and spent nearly twenty years in exile on Jersey and Guernsey. He was buried in the Panthéon after a state funeral.
