Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was born on 26 February 1802, in Besancon, Franche-Comte, France. He was a French Romantic writer and politician.

He published his first novel the year following his marriage, and his second three years later.

During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time.

He died on 22 May 1885, aged 83. He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris,