![]() ![]() Alongside these he worked on plays and serialised 'adventure' or 'gothic' stories such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo self-exiled himself from the new republic of France, not because of his politics, but because he valued free thought and was deeply mistrustful of groupthink inspired by Napoleon's reign.ĭuring his lifetime, Hugo's works were many - he was a 'jobbing writer' who produced essays and autobiographies on all of the great figures of recent history - from the Kings of France to Cromwell, Napoleon, even Torquemada. Hugo was born to a France that was just about to experience the 1848 Uprising and Revolution, after which time 'the Tyrant' (Napoleon) would come to power for a short period. ![]() He was also very wary of the 'Great Men' of his time, such figures as Cromwell, or Napoleon Bonaparte. His thinking was liberal and anti-authoritarian, supporting universal suffrage and the abolition of slavery. ![]() He had the fortune - or perhaps the misfortune, we should remember - to be a man born to turbulent times, and was in thought, slightly ahead of them. Victor Hugo was a French Writer whose fame, although not inconsiderable during his life, was fully realized many years after his death. ![]()
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