Victor Hugo

 Victor-Marie Hugo (French: [viktoR maRi ygo(listen) (listen); 26 February 1802 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic politician and writer. He wrote in a variety of genres over a sixty-year literary career. He is regarded as one of the most important French authors in all time.His most famous works are his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Miserables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, like Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Legende des siecles (The Legend of the Ages). Hugo was a prolific writer, and through his stage plays Cromwell and Hernani was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement. His works influenced a variety of compositions for music, both during his lifetime and after his death. Hugo produced over four thousand drawings during his life and fought for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.Though Hugo was a staunch royalist when young, Hugo's views changed over time as the years progressed, and he was an avid republican, serving in politics as both deputy and senator.