Victor Hugo
1802 - 1885. Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned 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 in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency.
Miniatures
We have a miniature of him in our shop. Besides a plastic free-gift miniature that was released in the sixties by the French coffee firm Mokarex there are no other miniatures known to us.
We have a miniature of him in our shop. Besides a plastic free-gift miniature that was released in the sixties by the French coffee firm Mokarex there are no other miniatures known to us.
