Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo, a prominent French author known for his poems, novels, and dramas, is best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Hugo was an artist during the Romantic period, which was characterized by a concentration on nature as an inspiration for both literature and art.

Victor Hugo began writing semi-political works with The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The protagonist of the tale was a disfigured orphan who suffered abuse from the locals. Later, it was transformed into a movie, and a 1996 Disney animated picture was produced.

When it was first published in 1862, Les Misérables, which is set in 1845, was a major success, making him very well-known not just in France but also all over the world after it was translated into various languages. It chronicles the activities of a man serving a 19-year sentence for robbing a loaf of bread to feed his hungry niece. It was an excellent book that exposed the numerous problems with post-revolutionary French society and the conflict between good and evil.

Birth - Death: 1802 - 1885