Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). He also produced more than 4,000 drawings, which have since been admired for their beauty, and earned widespread respect as a campaigner for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French franc banknotes.
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Known For
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1996)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
(2002)
Novel
Les Misérables
(2012)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1958)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1923)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1978)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1956)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1998)
Novel
Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary in Concert
(2010)
Original Story
Delusions of Grandeur
(1971)
Theatre Play
The Hunchback
(1997)
Novel
The Man Who Laughs
(1928)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1935)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1934)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1982)
Novel
Full Filmography
Writing
Esmeralda
(1905)
Novel
Le Chemineau
(1905)
Novel
Fool's Revenge
(1909)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1911)
Novel
Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean
(1913)
Novel
Les Misérables - Part 4: Cosette and Marius
(1913)
Novel
Les Misérables - Part 2: Fantine
(1913)
Novel
Les Misérables - Part 3: Cosette
(1913)
Novel
Ruy Blas
(1914)
Theatre Play
Don Caesar de Bazan
(1915)
Theatre Play
The Darling of Paris
(1917)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1917)
Novel
Der König amüsiert sich Rigoletto
(1918)
Novel
Les Travailleurs de la mer
(1918)
Novel
Marion de Lorme
(1918)
Novel
The Toilers
(1919)
Novel
Ninety-Three
(1921)
Novel
The Grinning Face
(1921)
Novel
Esmeralda
(1922)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1923)
Novel
The Spanish Dancer
(1923)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1925)
Novel
The Man Who Laughs
(1928)
Novel
Aa mujo: zenpen
(1929)
Original Story
The Bishop's Candlesticks
(1929)
Novel
Aa mujo: Kohen
(1929)
Original Story
Jean Valjean: Part Two
(1931)
Novel
Jean Valjean: Part One
(1931)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1934)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1935)
Novel
Gavroche
(1937)
Novel
The Giant
(1938)
Novel
Gô among the birds
(1939)
Author
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939)
Novel
The Passengers of Ursa Major
(1943)
Author
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
(1948)
Novel
The Queen's Lover
(1948)
Novel
Les Misérables - Manhunt
(1948)
Novel
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
(1950)
Novel
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
(1950)
Novel
Ezhai Padum Paadu
(1950)
Novel
Les Miserables
(1952)
Novel
Sea Devils
(1953)
Author
Rigoletto
(1955)
Theatre Play
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1956)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1958)
Novel
The Man Who Laughs
(1966)
Novel
Sefiller
(1967)
Novel
Hernani
(1967)
Theatre Play
Mária Tudorová
(1968)
Theatre Play
Delusions of Grandeur
(1971)
Theatre Play
Kráľ sa zabáva
(1971)
Theatre Play
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
(1974)
Theatre Play
Lucrezia Borgia
(1974)
Novel
Rigoletto
(1977)
Original Story
Les Miserables
(1978)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1978)
Novel
Ruy Blas
(1979)
Theatre Play
The Tale of Jean Valjean
(1979)
Novel
Rigoletto
(1981)
Original Story
Verdi Ernani
(1982)
Original Story
Verdi: Rigoletto
(1982)
Original Story
Les Misérables
(1982)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1982)
Novel
La Lune
(1985)
Original Story
Gavroche
(1986)
Novel
La Gioconda
(1986)
Original Story
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
(1986)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1988)
Novel
Rigoletto
(1994)
Theatre Play
Les Miserables
(1995)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1996)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1996)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1996)
Novel
The Hunchback
(1997)
Novel
Notre Dame de Paris
(1998)
Novel
Les Misérables
(1998)
Novel
Quasimodo d'el Paris
(1999)
Novel
Rigoletto
(2001)
Original Story
Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona
(2002)
Novel
Ruy Blas
(2002)
Novel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
(2002)
Novel
Ernani
(2005)
Original Story
Rigoletto
(2006)
Original Story
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(2006)
Novel
Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma)
(2008)
Original Story
Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden
(2008)
Original Story
Angelo, tyran de Padoue
(2009)
Original Story
Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary in Concert
(2010)
Original Story
Rigoletto
(2010)
Original Story
Esmeralda
(2011)
Original Story
San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto
(2012)
Original Concept
Verdi: Ernani
(2012)
Original Story
The Man Who Laughs
(2012)
Novel
Les Misérables
(2012)
Novel
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
(2013)
Original Story
La Scala Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris
(2013)
Original Story
Notre Dame de Paris
(2017)
Original Story
The Man Who Laughs
(2019)
Original Story
Les Misérables: The Staged Concert
(2019)
Original Story
Les Misérables
(2019)
Novel
Les Heureux
(2021)
Original Story
Mashup
(2021)
Original Story
Demain dès L'Aube
(2024)
Original Story
Crew