Victor hugo+biography

French man of letters and minister (1802–1885)

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Victor Hugo: A Biography

September 5, 2017

Reading Les Miserables many years ago was nothing less than a life-changing experience. Subsequently, I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame with much less effect, but the message of Les Miserables has remained etched in my mind. It was not until pre-reading for a trip to France that I ran across this biography by Graham Robb and realized how little I actually knew about Victor Hugo, the man.

I had previously read Graham Robb’s Historical Geography of France and wanted to know more about Hugo, so I plunged into this lengthy book. You really can’t read Graham Robb fast because he’s always tossing out incidental things to ponder.

This book greatly facilitates one’s understanding of French history and the reasons for the rise of socialism. The traditional techniques for oppressing the masses are exposed in French history: religion, imprisonment, pre-education, police power, and fake news. Unquestionably, the profiting of the few over the many and the unequal distribution of resources is contradictory to Christ’s message. Early European Catholicism seems to have been more a means of oppression than a means for the practice of Christianity. The hypocrisy of the church was clearly exposed by the character Bishop Myriel in Les Mis

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VICTOR HUGO

By Daniel Frezza

Few writers are successful as poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights. Victor Hugo did it all—and served in France’s government.

Hugo was born in 1802, in Besançon, France. His father, Leopold, a soldier in the Revolution of 1789, attained the rank of general in the army of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother. His mother, Sophie, was responsible for encouraging her three sons (Victor was the youngest) to pursue writing careers. Sophie and Leopold’s marriage was troubled and they legally separated in 1814. Leopold received custody, but the boys later chose to live with Sophie (Samuel Edwards, Victor Hugo: A Tumultuous Life [New York: David McKay Co., 1971], 33). Precocious and hard-working, Hugo could read and write by age five. By eighteen his poetry had attracted national attention. After Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815, France restored the former monarchy, and some of Victor’s poems had a strong royalist bent (Sophie’s influence). This pleased Louis XVIII, who invited him to tea (Edwards, 39).

Sophie died in 1821, and Hugo became close to Leopold, gradually absorbing his father’s admiration for Napoleon. This didn’t prevent Hugo from developing connections with the royal family. His first collection of poetry, published at age twenty,