Hugo, Victor
Hugo, Victor (–Marie Hugo ), ( 1802 – 85 ),poet, novelist, and dramatist, the central figure of the Romantic movement in France. Coming late to active political life, he was elected to the Assembly in 1848 , but spent the years 1851 – 70 in exile, the greater part of the time in Guernsey. He returned to Paris in 1870 and was again chosen as a deputy, later becoming a senator of the Third Republic. He had been elected to Académie française in 1841 . Hugo is one of the masters of French poetry, to which he brought a new freedom of subject, diction, and versification. His many collections include: Odes et poésies diverses ( 1822 ), Odes et ballades ( 1826 ), Les Orientales ( 1829 ), Les Feuilles d'automne ( 1831 ), Les Chants du crépuscule ( 1835 ), Les Voix intérieures ( 1837 ), Les Rayons et les ombres ( 1840 ), and Le Rhin ( 1842 ). His daughter and...
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