Victor Hugo Biography

Victor Hugo

Biography

Type: Writer, Poet, Politician

Born: February 1802,Besançon, Doubs, France

Died: 22 May 1885 (aged 83), Paris, France

Among his prodigious output of poems, "Les Contemplations" and "Les Legende des siecles" stand high and are regarded as his best works in this genre. His best novels include "Les Misérables" and "Notre-Dame de Paris" (in English, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame") and "Les Travailleurs de la Mer". He is regarded as the leading figure in the history of French literature and politics who did not only contributed to the Romantic Movement in France but also gained international fame for his efforts towards establishing the Third Republican and democracy in the country. The author died on 22 May 1885, at the age of 83.

Works:

    Published during Hugo's lifetime:

  • Cromwell preface only (1819)
  • Odes et poésies diverses (1822)
  • Odes (1823)
  • Han d'Islande (1823), (Hans of Iceland)
  • Nouvelles Odes (1824)
  • Bug-Jargal (1826)
  • Odes et Ballades (1826), (Odes and Ballads)
  • Cromwell (1827)
  • Les Orientales (1829), (Orientalia)
  • Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (1829), (The Last Day of a Condemned Man)
  • Hernani (1830)
  • Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
  • Marion Delorme (1831)
  • Les Feuilles d'automne (1831), (Autumn Leaves)
  • Le roi s'amuse (1832)
  • Lucrezia Borgia (1833)
  • Marie Tudor (1833)
  • Littérature et philosophie mêlées (1834), (A Blend of Literature and Philosophy)
  • Claude Gueux (1834)
  • Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
  • Les Chants du crépuscule (1835), (Songs of the Half Light)
  • La Esmeralda (only libretto of an opera written by Victor Hugo himself) (1836)
  • Les Voix intérieures (1837)
  • Ruy Blas (1838)
  • Les Rayons et les ombres (1840)
  • Le Rhin (1842)
  • Les Burgraves (1843)
  • Napoléon le Petit (1852), (Napoleon the Little)
  • Les Châtiments (1853)
  • Les Contemplations (1856), (The Contemplations)
  • Les TRYNE (1856)
  • La Légende des siècles (1859), (The Legend of the Ages)
  • Les Misérables (1862)
  • William Shakespeare (1864)
  • Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865), (Songs of Street and Wood)
  • Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866), (Toilers of the Sea)
  • La voix de Guernsey (1867)
  • L'Homme qui rit (1869), (The Man Who Laughs)
  • L'Année terrible (1872)
  • Quatrevingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874)
  • Mes Fils (1874)
  • Actes et paroles – Avant l'exil (1875)
  • Actes et paroles – Pendant l'exil (1875), (Deeds and Words)
  • Actes et paroles – Depuis l'exil (1876)
  • La Légende des Siècles 2e série (1877)
  • L'Art d'être grand-père (1877), (The Art of Being a Grandfather)
  • Histoire d'un crime 1re partie (1877), (History of a Crime)
  • Histoire d'un crime 2e partie (1878)
  • Le Pape (1878)
  • La pitié suprême (1879)
  • Religions et religion (1880), (Religions and Religion)
  • L'Âne (1880)
  • Les Quatres vents de l'esprit (1881), (The Four Winds of the Spirit)
  • Torquemada (1882)
  • La Légende des siècles Tome III (1883)
  • L'Archipel de la Manche (1883)

Published posthumously:

  • Théâtre en liberté (1886)
  • La Fin de Satan (1886)
  • Choses vues (1887)
  • Toute la lyre (1888), (The Whole Lyre)
  • Amy Robsart (1889)
  • Les Jumeaux (1889)
  • Actes et Paroles – Depuis l'exil, 1876–1885 (1889)
  • Alpes et Pyrénées (1890), (Alps and Pyrenees)
  • Dieu (1891)
  • France et Belgique (1892)
  • Toute la lyre – dernière série (1893)
  • Les fromages (1895)
  • Correspondences – Tome I (1896)
  • Correspondences – Tome II (1898)
  • Les années funestes (1898)
  • Choses vues – nouvelle série (1900)
  • Post-scriptum de ma vie (1901)
  • Dernière Gerbe (1902)
  • Mille francs de récompense (1934)
  • Océan. Tas de pierres (1942)
  • L'Intervention (1951)
  • Conversations with Eternity (1998)

Victor Hugo Quotes

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.. Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves,
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.. Victor Hugo
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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