Victor Marie Hugo

Parents

• Victor was born in Besancon.• His father was Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo• His mother was Sophie Trebuchet

Joseph was an officer in Napoleon's army.

Dates

• Date of Birth: Feburary 26, 1802• Date of Death: May 22,1885

Children

• Victor had five children, although he had five children only one pulled through. The one that did survive was mentally ill.

• Francois: October 28, 1828 – Decemer 26, 1873• Leopold: July 16, 1823- October 10 1823• Charles: November 4, 1826- March 13, 1871• Adele: August 24, 1830- April 21, 1915• Leopoldine: August 28, 1824- September 4, 1843

• When Victor was young he wrote poetry, he also published a few volumes of lyric poetry.

• Victor was not allowed to marry his love, Adele Foucher, but when his mother died he married her in 1822.

• Leopoldine died when she was nineteen when she drown after a boating accident.

The reason she wasn’t able to surface was because her dress was soaked and therefore became very heavy.

He was a French poet, and dramatist.Hugo is considered one of the most well-known

French writers.

• http://www.online-literature.com/victor_hugo• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/

274974/Victor-Hugo/

• http://www.biography.com/people/victor-hugo-9346557