February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885
Most widely known as one of the greatest French writers of all time, Victor Hugo was so much more than a teller of stories. A true Renaissance Man, Hugo was a novelist, of course, but also a poet, a statesman, a dramatist, an activist, an artist…the list is lengthy. The son of a general in the Napoleonic army, Hugo moved around a lot in his youth. The stress of the constant moving led to his parents separating and he and his brother landing in a boarding school in Paris. He wrote from an early age. His first poem was submitted to a competition when he was 15. The words kept coming. In all he published more than 30 novels, 21 collections of poetry, 11 plays and countless essays as well as thousands of drawings.
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