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Victor Hugo
French poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). Hugo's best-loved works are the novels Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862).
In 1819, Victor Hugo helped found the literary review known as the Conservateur Littéraire, which ran until 1821. In this publication, Hugo featured his own articles on poets such as Alphonse de Lamartine and André de Chénier.1