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Victor Hugo — Poet, novelist and dramatist, leader of Romanticism, 1802–1885
Son of an officer of the Empire, he published his first odes at twenty and imposed romantic drama with the battle of Hernani. A deputy, then proscribed after the coup of 1851, he wrote his greatest books in exile and returned a national hero. France gave him a state funeral and carried him to the Panthéon. (Editorial synthesis)
Victor Hugo was born on 26 February 1802. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Assemblée nationale)
Victor Hugo was born in Besançon. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Victor Hugo died on 22 May 1885. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Assemblée nationale)
Victor Hugo died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Victor Hugo: Les Misérables. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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