Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was born in Besançon on 26 February 1802, the son of Léopold Hugo, an officer who became a general under Napoleon. Poet and playwright, he was appointed a peer of France by Louis-Philippe on 13 April 1845, then elected representative of the Seine in 1848. After the coup d'état of 2 December 1851, he left France for Belgium, then Jersey and Guernsey, where he remained until the fall of the Empire in 1870. Elected senator of the Seine on 30 January 1876, he died in Paris on 22 May 1885; a state funeral took him to the Panthéon.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelThe Last Day of a Condemned ManLe Dernier Jour d'un condamnéVictor Hugo · 1829Literature
• NovelLes MisérablesVictor Hugo · 1862LiteraturePublic domain