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VICTOR HUGO

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Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced [viktɔʁ maʁi y,,go]) (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.Victor-Marie Hugo was the third and last son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821); his brothers were Abel Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837). He was born in 1802 in Besançon (in the region of Franche-Comté) and lived in France for the majority of his life. However, he was forced into exile during the reign of Napoleon III — he lived briefly in Brussels during 1851; in Jersey from 1852 to 1855; and in Guernsey from 1855 to 1870 and again in 1872-1873. There was a general amnesty in 1859; after that, his exile was by choice.Hugo's early childhood was marked by great events. The century prior to his birth saw the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the French Revolution, the rise and fall of the First Republic, and the rise of the First French Empire and dictatorship under Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was proclaimed Emperor two years after Hugo's birth, and the Bourbon Monarchy was restored before his eighteenth birthday. The opposing political and religious views of Hugo's parents reflected the forces that would battle for supremacy in France throughout his life: Hugo's father was a high-ranking officer in Napoleon's army, an atheist republican who considered Napoleon a hero; his mother was a staunch Catholic Royalist who is believed to have taken as her lover General Victor Lahorie, who was executed in 1812 for plotting against Napoleon.
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My Interests

Movies:

les miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Books:

* Nouvelles Odes (1824) * Bug-Jargal (1826) * Odes et Ballades (1826) * Cromwell (1827) * Les Orientales (1829) * Le Dernier jour d'un condamn (1829) * Hernani (1830) * Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame) * Marion Delorme (1831) * Les Feuilles d'automne (Autumn Leaves) (1831) * Le roi s'amuse (1832) * Lucrece Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (1833) * Marie Tudor (1833) * Etude sur Mirabeau (1834) * Litterature et philosophie melees (1834) * Claude Gueux (1834) * Angelo (1835) * Les Chants du crepuscule (1835) * Les Voix interieures (1837) * Ruy Blas (1838) * Les Rayons et les ombres (1840) * Le Rhin (1842) * Les Burgraves (1843) * Napoleon le Petit (1852) * Les Chatiments (1853) * Lettres a Louis Bonaparte (1855) * Les Contemplations (1856) * La Legende des siecles (1859) * Les Miserables (1862) * William Shakespeare (1864) * Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865) * Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866), (Toilers of the Sea) * Paris-Guide (1867) * L'Homme qui rit (1869), (The Man Who Laughs) * L'Annee terrible (1872) * Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874) * Mes Fils (1874) * Actes et paroles Avant l'exil (1875) * Actes et paroles - Pendant l'exil (1875) * Actes et paroles - Depuis l'exil (1876) * La Legende des Sicles 2e serie (1877) * L'Art d'etre grand-pre (1877) * Histoire d'un crime 1re partie (1877) * Histoire d'un crime 2e partie (1878) * Le Pape (1878) * Religions et religion (1880) * L'Ane (1880) * Les Quatres vents de l'esprit (1881) * Torquemada (1882) * La Legende des sicles Tome III (1883) * L'Archipel de la Manche (1883) Published posthumously * Theatre en liberte (1886) * La fin de Satan (1886) * Choses vues - 1re serie (1887) * Toute la lyre (1888) * Alpes et Pyrenees (1890) * Dieu (1891) * France et Belgique (1892) * Toute la lyre - nouvelle srie (1893) * Correspondances - Tome I (1896) * Correspondances - Tome II (1898) * Les annees funestes (1898) * Choses vues - 2e srie (1900) * Post-scriptum de ma vie (1901) * Derniere Gerbe (1902) * Mille francs de rcompense (1934) * Ocean. Tas de pierres (1942) * Pierres (1951) * Conversations with Eternity