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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).
Between 1815 and 1818, Victor Hugo experienced a period of uninterrupted study at the Pension Cordier and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Following this, he attended the law faculty at Paris, though his studies there were described as irregular and purposeless.1