Hugo, Victor

has biography | a une biographie: Victor Hugo is one of the most famous French writers, a leading figure of the romantic movement, born in Besançon on February 26, 1802. Author of Bug-Jargal (1826), The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Les Misérables (1862), he was also engaged in politics as a royalist and conservative under the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, and then as a progressive republican under the Third Republic. He spoke out against slavery, the death penalty, poverty, the repression of the Paris Commune, but also in favor of the colonisation of Africa by France in a speech in 1879. He died in Paris on May 22, 1885.
was born | est né: 26 February 1802
died in | est mort par: 22 May 1885
has nationality | a la nationalité: France
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: France Info - Quand Victor Hugo défendait la colonisation de l'Afrique; Discours sur l'Afrique (1879) - texte; Discours sur l'Afrique (1879) - Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Statue of Victor Hugo, Besançon