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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 parents were Sophie Hugo (née Trébuchet) and Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo.1
His father served as a major and later as a general in Napoleon’s army. The couple’s relationship was marked by significant incompatibility, largely stemming from their differing political views: his mother was a royalist, while his father remained loyal to the various governments of the time, including the Convention, the Empire, and the Restoration.1