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| INTRODUCTION THE STORY THEIR SYNOPSIS MY SYNOPSIS THE CHARACTERS VICTOR HUGO FACT v. FICTION FACTS THE SHOW DISEASES RUE DE LA PERLE A PALAVER MEDIA WRITTEN FANFIC/FANART L'HOPITAL OTHER SITE BRING ME HOME |
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| VICTOR HUGO A biography of Victor Hugo, the author of Les Miserables. |
| VICTOR HUGO 1802 - 1885 Bio: Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napolean's army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After Napolean's defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Academie Francais. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Academie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entereing politics, he was a seat in the National Aseembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napolean. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow. ~ from the Lee Fahnestock and Norman McAfee translation of Les Miserables Selected Works: Odes et Poesies Diverses (Miscellaneous Odes and Verses) (1822) Han d'Islande (Han of Iceland) (1823) Nouvelles Odes (New Odes) (1824) Bug-Jargal (The Slave-King) (1826) Odes et Ballades (Odes and Ballads) (1826) Cromwell (1827) Les Orientales (1829) Marion de Lorme (1829) Le Dernier Jour d'un Condemne (The Last Day of a Condemned Man) (1829) Hernani (1830) Les Feuilles d'Automne (Autumn Leaves) (1831) Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) Le Roie s'Amuse (The King Amuses Himself) (1832) Lucrecia Borgia (1833) Claude Gueux (1834) Les Chants du Crepuscule (Songs of Twilight) (1835) Les Voix Interieures (Inner Voices) (1835) Ruy Blas (1838) Les Rayons et Les Ombres (Sunbeams and Shadows) (1840) Les Burgraves (The Governors) (1842) Napoleon le Petit (The Little Napolean) (1852) Les Chatiments (Punishments (1853) Les Contemplations (Contemplations) (1856) Le Legende des Siecles (The Legend of the Ages) (1859-1883) Les Miserables (1862) Nintey-Three (1874) L'Art d'etre Grand-Pere (The Art of Being a Grandfather) (1877) La Fin du Satan (The Fall of Satan) (unfinished) |
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