Victor Marie Hugo, born February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France, is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers of the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century. Victor Hugo was an accomplished poet, novelist, and artist as showcased in his literary and painted works. His fame was secured by his poems, with his universal novels; Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), heightening his renown.
Between the years of 1823 and roughly 1874 Victor Hugo wrote eight novels with Les Miserables (published 1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (English: The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (published 1831) universally acknowledged as his two world-renowned works. These eight novels reflect a unique writing style that can only be attributed to Victor Hugo and is a compelling argument to the two universals novels ubiquitous fame. Hugo’s usage of detailed descriptions of people, places and events is sometimes distracting from the plot and, indeed, Hugo would put in unnecessary digressions simply to show off his encyclopedic knowledge. This tendency compels many readers to dislike his literary style; however, when his descriptions center on the main characters, events or settings, it is an indisputable fact that his literary illustrations made his novels wildly popular and praised, both during his life and
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The first cause was to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Parisian Gothic architecture, which was frequently neglected, run to ruin, defaced or torn down entirely. The second rationale was to prove that French history offered a rich variety of subjects to represent Romantic ideals and themes, a controversial stance as many Romantics of the nineteenth century stayed away from themes having to do with the past. However, Hugo bids readers to learn from the past and interpret current events in historical