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Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Hugo, Victor Marie (hū’gō). A great French man of letters and publicist; born at Besançon, Feb. 26, 1802; died at Paris, May 22, 1885. His poems include: ‘Various Odes and Poems’ (1822); ‘New Odes’ (1824); ‘Odes and Ballads’ (1826); ‘The Orientals’ (1829); ‘Autumn Leaves’ (1831); ‘Twilight Songs’ (1835); ‘Inner Voices’ (1837); ‘Sunbeams and Shadows’ (1840); ‘The Chastisements’ (1853); ‘The Contemplations’ (1856–57); ‘The Legend of the Ages’ (1859); ‘Songs of the Streets and Woods’ (1865); ‘The Terrible Year’ (1872); ‘The Art of Being a Grandfather’ (1877); ‘The Legend of the Ages’ second series (1877); ‘The Pope’ (1878); ‘The Four Winds of the Spirit’ (1881); and other volumes of poetry. His plays include: ‘Cromwell’ (1827); ‘Amy Robsart’ (1828), adapted from Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’; ‘Marion Delorme’ (1829); ‘Hernani’ (1830); ‘Le Roi s’Amuse’ (1832); ‘Lucretia Borgia’ (1833); ‘Marie Tudor’ (1833); ‘Angelo’ (1835); ‘Esmeralda’ (1836); ‘Ruy Blas’ (1838); ‘Les Burgraves’ (1843); ‘Torquemada’ (1882); ‘The Theatre in Freedom’ (1886); etc. His prose includes: ‘Han d’Islande’ (1823); ‘Bug-Jargal’ (1826); ‘The Last Day of a Condemned Man’ (1829); ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ (1831); ‘Literature and Philosophy Blended’ (1834); ‘Claude Gueux’ (1834); ‘The Rhine’ (1842); ‘Napoleon the Little’ (1852); ‘Les Misérables’ (1862); ‘Victor Hugo Revealed by a Witness of his Life’ (1863); ‘William Shakespeare’ (1864); ‘The Toilers of the Sea’ (1866); ‘The Man Who Laughs’ (1869); ‘Acts and Words’ (1872–76); ‘Ninety-Three’ (1874); ‘History of a Crime’ (1877–78): (posthumously), ‘Things Seen’ (1887); ‘Touring: Alps and Pyrenees’ (1890); etc. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).