What is Victor Hugo?
{{Infobox Writer | name = Victor Hugo | image = Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876.jpg | imagesize = 260px | caption = Victor Hugo, circa 1880 | birth_name = Victor Marie Hugo | birth_date = 26 February 1802 | birth_place = [[Besançon]], [[France]] | death_date = 22 May 1885 (aged 83) | death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] | occupation = [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[novelist]], [[essay]]ist, human rights campaigner | movement = [[Romanticism]] | signature = Victor Hugo Signature.svg | website = }} '''Victor Marie Hugo''' (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a [[France|French]] [[poet]], [[playwright]], [[novelist]], [[statesman]] and [[human rights]] [[activist]]. He played an important part in the [[Romanticism|Romantic movement]] in France. Hugo first became famous in France because of his [[poetry]], as well as his [[novel]]s and his [[Play (theatre)|plays]]. ''[[Les Contemplations]]'' and ''[[La Légende des siècles]]'' are his most famous poetry collections. Outside of France, his novels ''[[Les Misérables]]'' and ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' (known in English also as ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'') are his most famous works. When he was young, he was a [[conservatism|conservative]] [[royalist]]. As he got older he became more [[Liberalism|liberal]] and supported [[republicanism]]. His work was about many of the [[Politics|political]] and [[social]] problems as well as the [[art]]istic [[wikt:trend|trends]] of his time. He is buried in the [[Panthéon]], in [[Paris]]. ==Life== Victor Hugo was the son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773–1828) and Sophie Trébuchet (1772-1821). He had two older brothers called Abel Joseph Hugo (1798–1855) and Eugène Hugo (1800–1837). He was born in 1802, in [[Besançon]] (in the [[Doubs]] [[departments of France|department]]). Hugo lived in [[France]] for most of his life. During the reign of [[Napoleon III of France|Napoleon III]] he went into [[exile]]. In 1851, he lived in [[Belgium]], in [[Brussels]].He moved to [[Jersey]] in 1852.