victor hugo biographie

victor hugo was a french poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.tesman

In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. 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. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris(also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views refined as the decades passed;^[1] he became a passionate supporter ofrepublicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in thePanthéon