One of the most famous French writers is undoubtedly the great Victor Hugo. From the pen of this classic came such world-famous works as “The Miserable”, “Notre-Dame de Paris”, “The Man Who Laughs” and others.
The future writer was born on a Parisian street where local glassblowers lived. To this day, the house where Hugo was born, alas, has not survived. By the age of 14, young Victor had already written two tragedies, which, however, had never been published. In addition to writing talent, the future luminary of literature also possessed a burden to painting. Draw Victor Hugo began at the age of 8. Victor Hugo himself said that the purpose of his novel “Notre Dame de Paris” was the inspiration of the French nation for the love of native architecture. When the writer was gripped by another crisis, he locked himself in an empty room with a pen and paper, and worked completely naked so that even his clothes would not distract him.
The famous novel “The Miserables”, he wrote for over twenty years. For 16 years, the writer lived in one of the Paris hotels. Victor Hugo’s wife, Adele, was indifferent to her husband, but this did not prevent her from having five children. For 50 years, the writer has had a love relationship with another woman, Juliette Drouet, whom he called his “true wife”. But throughout his life, Hugo tried to keep up with the newfangled trends, attending various youth events of those years, even when he was already at a very old age.
In Paris, there is a metro station, named for Victor Hugo. The street on which the writer’s mansion was located was named in his honor during his lifetime. At the age of 84, Victor Hugo, being ill, did not dare to refuse to participate in the parade in his honor, as a result of which he developed pneumonia, and he soon died. The funeral of the writer lasted ten days, and more than one million Parisians took part in it. In honor of the writer, one of the craters on the planet Mercury is also named.
