Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf French writer
dramatist
human
novelist
playwright
poet
burialDate 1885-06-01
causeOfDeath pneumonia
child Adèle Hugo
Charles Hugo
François-Victor Hugo
Léopoldine Hugo
countryOfBirth France
countryOfCitizenship France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1802-02-26
dateOfDeath 1885-05-22
describedBySource Encyclopædia Britannica
familyName Hugo
father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
fullName Victor-Marie Hugo
genre drama
historical novel
lyric poetry
givenName Victor
honor state funeral in France
influenced Albert Camus
Charles Baudelaire
Jean-Paul Sartre
influencedBy François-René de Chateaubriand
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie française
mother Sophie Trébuchet
movement Romanticism
name Victor Hugo
notableWork Hernani
L'Homme qui rit
La Légende des siècles
Les Châtiments
Les Contemplations
Les Misérables
Les Orientales
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Les Travailleurs de la mer
Notre-Dame de Paris
Quatrevingt-treize
Ruy Blas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
occupation essayist
novelist
playwright
poet
politician
periodOfExile 1851-1870
placeOfBirth Besançon
placeOfBurial Panthéon, Paris
placeOfDeath Paris
politicalAlignment republicanism
portrait https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Victor_Hugo_001.jpg
positionHeld Deputy of the National Assembly of France
Peer of France
Senator of France
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
signature https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Victor_Hugo_Signature.svg
spouse Adèle Foucher
wasExiledTo Guernsey
Jersey


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