Victor Hugo Quotes


Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?


Citations

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Carleton, 1862.

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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
  • Born: February 26, 1802
  • Died: May 22, 1885
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.