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Vicar Hugo biography

Vicar Hugo biography


In France, Vicar Hugo is know as one of the greatest poets of all time. Worldwide, however, Hugo is much more widely know for Les Miserables, his internationally successful novel depicting a man in search of justice. Throughout his life, Hugo wrote several other novels, verse, and poetry. it is said that every morning, Victor would write no less than 100 lines of verse or 20 pages of prose.
Not much is known about Victor Hugo’s childhood. He was the third son of Joseph-Leopold Sigisbert, a general in Nepoleon’s Army. Born on February 26, 1802, he spent much of his childhood traveling to places such as Elba, Naples, and Madrid, always returning to Paris. From 1815 through 1818, Victor studied at the PensionCordier and the Lycee Louis Le Grande. He is said to have been a generally poor student. This memory of being a poor student would later inspire the character of Marious in his work, Les Miserables.
Hugo’s earliest works date back to 1816 when he began writing verses, translations, and plays. From 1819 until 1821, Hugo ran his own review, the Conservateur Litteraire, in which he published his own articles about other authors.
His first book of poems was published in 1822, the same year he married his childhood friend, Adele Foucher with whom he would have five children. The book of poems, titled Odes et Poesies Diversies earned him a pensio from King Louis XVIII. His first novel, Han d’Islande was published in 1823. (This novel was later realized in an English translation called Hans of Iceland two years later.)
Hugo would spend the next several years writing various poems, verses, plays and novels. He began work on Les Miserables in 1840. The novel, as well as any other work from Hugo, however, would not be completed and published until 1862, as a result of demands of society as well as his political life. He was elected to the French Acidly and later to the Chamber of peers. Also contributing to Hugo’s ceasing to write was the death of his daughter, Leopoldine, who accidentally drowned in 1843.