Victor Marie Hugo was born February 26, 1802 in Besançon, France.

He was the son of

General Count Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trébuchet. His parents were
separated not long after his birth, and he lived with his mother after that. He started
reading and writing poetry when he was 13. In 1817, he was honored by the French
Academy for a poem that he wrote. His first book, Odes et Poésies Diverses
(Micellaneous Odes and Verses) was published in 1822. He followed up with his first
novel, Han d'Islande (Han of Iceland) in 1823.

Victor Hugo married Adèle Trébuchet, and they had five children. In 1830, his play
Hernani was first published and his fame began to grow. His next book, Notre-Dame De
Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) was published in 1831.

Hugo was elected senator with the new formation of the Second Republic, but he went
to the exile after the coup of state Hugo's exile lasted for almost 20 years.

Hugo didn't waste his time in exile, he wrote Napoléon le petit (The Little Napoleon)
was published in 1852 and his most famous work- Les Misérables , published in 1862.
Les Misérables a novel about the social injustice of 19th-century France, in which the
main character, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of
bread.

He returned to France in 1870 in the Third Republic Finally,. In 1876, he was made a
senator. He died on May 22, 1885, in Paris, and was given a national funeral that was
attended by two million people.