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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).
Victor Hugo’s novel Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), known in English as The Toilers of the Sea, was inspired by the island of Guernsey and is dedicated to the island and its sailors.1