Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

1802–1885

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist, the leading figure of French Romanticism. Born in Besançon, he became famous as a poet and playwright, and later wrote Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

An opponent of Napoleon III, he spent almost twenty years in exile on Jersey and Guernsey, where he wrote the satirical Les Châtiments, Les Contemplations — with its poems of grief for his daughter Léopoldine, such as “Demain, dès l’aube…” — and the epic La Légende des siècles. He was given a state funeral and buried in the Panthéon.

Best-known poems

All poems (871)

# 3

A 137

B 7

C 50

D 33

E 46

F 14

G 7

H 13

I 14

J 46

L 245

M 21

N 17

O 24

P 47

Q 19

R 13

S 30

T 24

U 23

V 20

Z 2

In English 2

In German 2

In Hungarian 3

In Spanish 9