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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).
The French writer Victor Hugo died in 1885. Following his death, he was honored with a national funeral, and his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon in Paris.1