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Victor Hugo

1802 - 1885

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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Hugo is the 11th most popular writer (up from 12th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from France and the most popular French Writer.

Victor Hugo is most famous for his novel Les Miserables, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time.

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Among writers, Victor Hugo ranks 11 out of 7,302. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka. After him are Voltaire, James Joyce, Sophocles, Jules Verne, Virgil, and Molière.

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Among people born in 1802, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Alexandre Dumas, Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Elias Lönnrot, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, and Charles Wheatstone. Among people deceased in 1885, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern, Muhammad Ahmad, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Carl Spitzweg, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and Rosalía de Castro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 7 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoleon (1769), Louis XIV of France (1638), René Descartes (1596), Blaise Pascal (1623), Joan of Arc (1412), and Louis XVI of France (1754). After him are Voltaire (1694), Louis Pasteur (1822), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), and Montesquieu (1689).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Victor Hugo ranks 1. After him are Voltaire (1694), Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713).

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