Victor Hugo: The Greatsest French Writer
Have you heard of the best French poet ever? No, well, his name is Victor Hugo. He was a lot of things like a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual arts, statesman and a human right campaigner.
Hugo was born on 1805 and died on 1885. He was the youngest of the children. The century when he was born, Hugo saw the overthrow of the Buorbon Dynasty French Revolution, the rise and fall of the First Republic, and the rise of the First French Empire and dictatorship of Napolean Bonaparte. Napoleon was Emperor when Hugo was two years old. The Bourbon Monarchy was restored before his eighteenth birthday. When he was a teenager he fell in love with his neighbor’s daughter, Adele Foucher. His mother wanted him to marry into a finer family.