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Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 February 1802
- Died
- 22 May 1885
- Conflict
- Franco-Prussian War
- Place of birth
- Besançon
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Hugo
- Mother
- Sophie Trébuchet
- Spouse
- Adèle Foucher
- Sibling
- Abel Hugo, Eugène Hugo
- Movement
- freethought, Romanticism in France
- Genre
- polemical lampoon
- Field of work
- creative and professional writing
- Occupation
- politician, playwright, novelist, draftsperson, librettist, essayist, writer, illustrator, travel writer, poet, art historian, opinion journalist
- Position held
- Member of parliament for the Seine, Senator of La Seine, member of the Chamber of Peers, Member of parliament for the Seine, seat 14 of the Académie française, president of the Société des gens de lettres
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Maison de Victor Hugo, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Bibliothèque nationale de France
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Victor-Marie Hugo
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- date of burial or cremation
- 1 June 1885
- depicted by
- Portrait of Victor Hugo against the backdrop of Notre-Dame de Reims, Q97606145, Q97606178, Q97614020, Victor Hugo, Q97606686, Portrait of Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo, Q97614013, Q104373110, Victor Hugo
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopedic Lexicon, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Albert Edelfelt's letters, History of Everyday Life Database, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 1883
- family
- Hugo family
- godparent
- Victor Lahorie
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Maison de Victor Hugo, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Archives nationales
- has written for
- Revue des Deux Mondes
- honorific suffix
- Peerage of France
- influenced by
- John Owen
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- last words
- C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit… Je vois de la lumière noire.
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Académie Française, Serbian Learned Society, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Besançon et de Franche-Comté, Société des gens de lettres, Q30738521, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
- member of political party
- Parti de l'Ordre
- name in native language
- Victor Hugo
- noble title
- viscount
- notable work
- Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Contemplations, L'Art d'être grand-père, The Man Who Laughs, Les Orientales, Toilers of the Sea, Ninety-three
- place of burial
- Panthéon
- political ideology
- anti-clericalism
- relative
- Georges Victor-Hugo, Jeanne Hugo
- residence
- Place des Barricades - Barricadenplein, rue Laffitte, Marine Terrace, Hauteville House, birthhouse of Victor Hugo, avenue Victor-Hugo, Calle de la Reina, Madrid, Maison du Pigeon - De Duif, Maison du Moulin à vent - De Windmolen, place des Vosges, Rue Louise-Émilie-de-La-Tour-d'Auvergne, rue Catherine-de-La-Rochefoucauld
- significant event
- funeral
- significant person
- David d'Angers
- start of work period
- 1819
- student of
- Louis Lefébure de Fourcy
- topic has template
- Template:Victor Hugo
- topic's main category
- Category:Victor Hugo
- unmarried partner
- Juliette Drouet, Léonie d'Aunet, Judith Gautier
- writing language
- French
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