Victor

 Victor-Marie Hugo (French: [viktoR maRi ygo] (listen); 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic politician and writer. He wrote in many genres during his 60-year writing career. Hugo is considered one of the most significant French writers of the past. His most famous works include Les Miserables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). 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 at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement, with his play Cromwell and the drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music in his lifetime as well as after his death. These include the opera Rigoletto as well as the musicals Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris. Hugo produced over 4000 drawings during his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes like the abolition of capital punishment.Though Hugo was a staunch royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades came and he became an enthusiastic Republican and a staunch supporter, serving in the political arena as deputy and senator.