Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French Romantic writer whose work ran through poetry, novels, plays and essays. He was best known outside France for the novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and in France for poetry collections such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles. Hugo also worked as a journalist and politician, and campaigned against capital punishment and slavery. He died in 1885 and was buried in the Panthéon in Paris.