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Which early poetry collection earned Victor Hugo a pension from Louis XVIII?
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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 early poetry collection that earned Victor Hugo a pension from Louis XVIII was his first book of poems, titled Odes et poésies diverses, published in 1822. The royalist sentiments expressed within these poems were instrumental in securing the monarch's favor.1