Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.
His brothers were Abel Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837). He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers of all time.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency. Hugo's childhood was a period of national political turmoil.
In 1848, Hugo was elected to the National Assembly of the Second Republic as a conservative. Hugo's advocacy to abolish the death penalty was renowned internationally.
Hugo published his famous political pamphlets against Napoleon III, Napoléon le Petit and Histoire d'un crime. Victor Hugo fought a lifelong battle for the abolition of the death penalty as a novelist, diarist, and member of Parliament.
He had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no avail. He was in Paris during the siege by the Prussian army in 1870, famously eating animals given to him by the Paris zoo.
On 9 April, he wrote in his diary, "In short, this Commune is as idiotic as the National Assembly is ferocious. Victor Hugo, who said, "A war between Europeans is a civil war" was an enthusiastic advocate for the creation of the United States of Europe.
He expounded his views on the subject in a speech he delivered during the International Peace Congress which took place in Paris in 1849. On July 14, 1870 he planted the "oak of the United States of Europe" in the garden of Hauteville House where he stayed during his exile on Guernsey from 1856 to 1870.
Hugo suffered a mild stroke on 27 June 1878. Two days before dying, he left a note with these last words: "To love is to act". Hugo's death from pneumonia on 22 May 1885, at the age of 83, generated intense national mourning.
His brothers were Abel Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837). He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers of all time.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency. Hugo's childhood was a period of national political turmoil.
In 1848, Hugo was elected to the National Assembly of the Second Republic as a conservative. Hugo's advocacy to abolish the death penalty was renowned internationally.
Hugo published his famous political pamphlets against Napoleon III, Napoléon le Petit and Histoire d'un crime. Victor Hugo fought a lifelong battle for the abolition of the death penalty as a novelist, diarist, and member of Parliament.
He had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no avail. He was in Paris during the siege by the Prussian army in 1870, famously eating animals given to him by the Paris zoo.
On 9 April, he wrote in his diary, "In short, this Commune is as idiotic as the National Assembly is ferocious. Victor Hugo, who said, "A war between Europeans is a civil war" was an enthusiastic advocate for the creation of the United States of Europe.
He expounded his views on the subject in a speech he delivered during the International Peace Congress which took place in Paris in 1849. On July 14, 1870 he planted the "oak of the United States of Europe" in the garden of Hauteville House where he stayed during his exile on Guernsey from 1856 to 1870.
Hugo suffered a mild stroke on 27 June 1878. Two days before dying, he left a note with these last words: "To love is to act". Hugo's death from pneumonia on 22 May 1885, at the age of 83, generated intense national mourning.
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