Victor Hugo

 Victor Hugo, a French poet, novelist, and lawyer, trained as a lawyer prior to when he embarked upon a literary career. He became one of the most renowned French Romantic poets, novelists and dramatists of the time, accumulating huge works while living in Paris, Brussels and the Channel Islands. Hugo died on May 22, 1885, in Paris.Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besancon, France, on February 26, 1802, to mother Sophie Trebuche and father Joseph-Leopold-Sigisbert Hugo. Hugo's father was an officer who served as a general in Napoleon's army. Hugo studied law between 1815-1818 but never took up the legal profession. Hugo began his career as a writer supported by his mother. He created the Conservateur Litteraire Journal where he published his own work as well as the work of his friends. In 1821, his mother died. The same year, Hugo married Adele Foucher and published his first work of poems, Odes et poesies diverses. In 1823, Hugo published his first novel. He then published a series of plays. In 1831, he released Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and it is one of his most enduring works. The novel is set in the medieval era, the novel presents a harsh criticism of the society that shuns and degrades the hunchback as Quasimodo. This was Hugo’s most acclaimed work, and it set the tone for his later writing about politics.