Hugo

(Victor Marie), French poet and novelist, b. Besançon, 26 Feb. 1802. Was first noted for his Odes , published in ’21. His dramas “Hernani,” ’30, and “Marion Delorme,” ’31, were highly succe ful. He was admitted into the French Academy in ’41, and made a peer in ’45. He gave his cordial adhesion to the Republic of ’48, and was elected to the A embly by the voters of Paris. He attacked Louis Napoleon, and after the coup d’état was proscribed. He first went to Bru els, where he published Napoleon the Little , a biting satire. He afterwards settled at Guernsey, where he remained until the fall of the Empire, producing The Legend of the Ages , ’59, Les Miserables , ’62, Toilers of the Sea , ’69, and other works. After his return to Paris he produced a new series of the Legend of the Ages , The Pope , Religions and Religion , Torque mad a , and other poems. He died 22 May, 1885, and it being decided he should have a national funeral, the Pantheon was secularised for that purpose, the cro being removed. Since his death a poem entitled The End of Satan has been published.