Hugo, Victor-Marie
(1802–1885)> WRITER
Hugo, Victor-Marie (26 February 1802, Besançon; 22 May 1885, Paris), writer, visited Italy and Spain as a boy because his father’s military career took him to these countries during Napoleon’s supremacy in Europe. He returned to Paris to finish his education after the political situation in Madrid became ominous for the French, and he began his literary career with occasional verse and a book of poetry in 1822. Victor Hugo turned to the theatre in 1829 after the success of Alexandre Dumas père…