Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) was a great poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers during the Romantic Period of French Literature.
Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). The actor and actress in this photograph are Donald Pleasance and Dorothy Tutin. [RA] {EB}
His plays, as well as his other works, represented every human emotion imaginable. [AL] {EB}