Victor Hugo
1802 CE–1885 CE · Novelist · Besançon
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French novelist, poet, and dramatist, and a central figure of French Romanticism. Born in Besançon, he built his early career in Paris, where the play "Hernani" (1830) and the novel "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831) established his fame. A politician and public voice, he opposed Louis-Napoléon's 1851 coup and spent nearly two decades in exile in Belgium and the Channel Islands, completing "Les Misérables" (1862) on Guernsey. He returned to Paris in 1870. He died there in 1885 and, after a mass state funeral, was interred in the Panthéon.
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