Born: 26 February 1802 Died: 22 May 1885 Birthplace: Besancon,
France Best known as: The author of Les Misérables Victor-Marie
Hugo was one of France's most distinguished writers: a poet,
dramatist and novelist of the romantic school of the 19th
century. His most famous works in English are his two epic
novels, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables
(1862), both of which have been adapted many times for stage and
screen. He was exiled in 1851 by Napoleon III, but returned to
France in 1870 in triumph, and his final years marked by public
veneration. Extra credit: Hugo's character Quasimodo -- the
Hunchback of Notre Dame -- has been played on-screen by Anthony
Quinn (1956), Anthony Hopkins (1982), Charles Laughton (1939),
and most famously by Lon Chaney (1923). Copyright © 1998-2013 by
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