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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. - Victor Hugo Attribution: Victor Hugo (1802–1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Cromwell, preface (1827).

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Victor Hugo

Titles by Victor Hugo:

• Les Miserables
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

eNotes:

• Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
• Victor Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
• Victor Hugo, one of Rand's influences (Atlas Shrugged)

Salem on History:

• Victor Hugo

Encyclopedia:

• Hugo, Victor (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Hugo, Victor Marie (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Hugo, Victor (The Oxford Dictionary of Art)
• Hugo, Victor (-Marie) (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia)

Salem on Literature:

• Victor Hugo (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Victor Hugo (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Victor Hugo (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Victor Hugo (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Victor Hugo (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Victor Hugo (Magill Book Reviews)

Literary Criticism:

• Hugo, Victor (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Victor Hugo dies
• Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables
• Victor Hugo is born