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Victor Hugo

Also known as Victor Marie Hugo, Homme océan, Ocean Man

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

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Victor Hugo was a French novelist, playwright, politician, and draftsperson. He was born in Besançon on 26 February 1802 and died in Paris on 22 May 1885. His works include *Quatrevingt Treize*, *Napoleon der Kleine*, *Drame*, and *Pensées et poèmes inédits de Victor Hugo*. He was a member of the Académie Française and the Société des gens de lettres.

He was the son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet. Hugo was married to Adèle Foucher and had children Adèle Hugo, Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo, and Léopoldine Hugo. He was also in relationships with Juliette Drouet, Léonie d'Aunet, and Judith Gautier. He was educated at the University of Paris and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He held citizenship in France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. He is buried in the Panthéon.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 26 February 1802
Died: 22 May 1885
Works: 4522

Top works

Napoleon der Kleine
Drame
Pensées et poèmes inédits de Victor Hugo
Quatrevingt Treize
Le télégraphe

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Film & TV

Writing · Besançon, Doubs, France

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1802
Active to: 1885

francefrancophonefrançaisfrenchnovelistpoet

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10,648
Total plays: 81,857

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,964x
[13] Catalase in vitro
· 1984 · cited 21,308x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1802–1885
Nationality: FR, GB, BE, FRA
Role / Field: Dramatici, Basnici, Authors french, Author, Writer, Literatura
Language: fre, fra
Gender: Male

Recorded by 44 libraries

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Quotes

“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”
“Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!”
“Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!”
“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection”
“Vous tenez à l’exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu’il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu’il ne faut pas tuer. Et comment enseignez-vous qu’il ne faut pas tuer? En tuant.”
“One can no more pray too much than love too much.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full.jpg
Political ideology: anti-clericalism

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Commons category: Victor Hugo
date of death: 1885-05-22
date of birth: 1802-02-26
Commons gallery: Victor Hugo
Commons Creator page: Victor Hugo
name in native language: Victor Hugo
birth name: Victor-Marie Hugo
last words: C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit… Je vois de la lumière noire.
date of burial or cremation: 1885-06-01
P11493: Die Hard 2
start of work period: 1819-00-00
end of work period: 1883-00-00
P12674: Erich Geyer

Sources (15)

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Victor Hugo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Le ore estreme d'un sentenziato a morte; traduzione di Giovanni Battista Carta con note. 3. ed. (col ritratto.)

Espoir en Dieu [Música notada] :]mélodie

Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe [Música notada]

Ntra. Lady of Paris

Bug-Jargal 1791

Ntra. Lady of Paris

Emerald or Our Lady of Paris: drama in five acts, (taken from Victor Hugo’s novel)

Cromwell

Maria de England: drama in three days

Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Tudor

Vieille chanson du jeune temps [Música notada]

Nouvelle chanson [Música notada]

Political discourses (h. 1-218); Letter to Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Interior of England, 11 February 1854 (h. 218-233v)

Contemplation [Música notada]

Viens! : op. 11 [Music Noted]

Je ne veux pas d'autres choses, op. 11 [Música notada]

Deux choeurs, op. 53. N. 1, Chanson de grand-père [Música notada] : choeur à 2 voix de femmes

Le crucifix [Música notada] : grand choeur

Serenata [Música notada]

Aubade [Música notada]

Espoir en Dieu! [Música notada] : romance

Chanson du fou [Music Noted]

Attente

Fée ou femme [Música notada] : valse chantée

Les alguazils [Música notada] : mélodie

Aimons toujours [Música notada] : mélodie

L'été [Música notada] : chanson

Amour!, amour! [Música notada]

Si vous n'avez rien à me dire [Música notada] : op. 14

Vieille chanson du jeune temts [sic] [Música notada]

La lyre & la harpe [Música notada]= (The lyre and the harp) : ode, op. 57

Je respire où tu palpites [Música notada]

Sara la baigneuse [Música notada] : berceuse

Sérénade [Música notada]

Viens! [Música notada]

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Encyclopedic overview

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo ( French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery.

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