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Hugo Victor
(1802–1885)
Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France. He was a poet, novelist, and dramatist and the most important French Romantic writer of the 19th Century. Hugo is best known for his novels "Notre-Dame de Paris" (a.k.a Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862).
Hugo created poems and novels that integrated political and philosophical questions with stories of his times. Many of Hugo's poems addressed the social disquiet of post-revolutionary France. Others to the glory of Napoleon. He wrote with simplicity and power of the joys and sorrows of life. Hugo authored an enormous body of work. Every morning he would write at least 100 lines of verse or 20 pages of prose.
A recurring theme in Hugo's work is humanity's ceaceless combat with evil. He eloquently stated the problems of his century and the great eternal human questions. Modern readers are still captured by the larger than life characters and re-creation of the swarming underworld of 19th Century Paris found in "Les Miserables."
Hugo died in Paris on the 23 of May, 1885 at the age of 83. Over three million people attended his State funeral.
Stamps about Hugo are here.
Albania, 1987, Victor Hugo
Belgium, 2010, Writers
Bulgaria, 1978, Victor Hugo
Chad, 1985, Victor Hugo and «Notre-Dame de Paris»
Chad, 1985, Victor Hugo and «Notre-Dame de Paris»
Chad, 1985, Victor Hugo and «Notre-Dame de Paris»
Chad, 1985, Victor Hugo and «Notre-Dame de Paris»
Chili, 1997, Carlo Morelli as Rigoletto
Comoren Islands, 1985, Victor Hugo and Pantheon
Comoren Islands, 2009, Victor Hugo
Congo, 1977, Victor Hugo, «Notre-Dame de Paris»
Congo, 1977, Victor Hugo, «Les Misrables»
Congo, 1977, Victor Hugo, «Les Travailleurs de la mer»
Cuba, 2005, Marti and Hugo's house, Paris
Cuba, 2010, Mis Hijos (tanslation of Mes Fils (Victor Hugo)), Long-tailed Tit and France
DDR, 1952, Victor Hugo
Djibouti, 1985, Victor Hugo
Equatorial Guinea, 2003, Victor Hugo
France, 1933, Victor Hugo
France, 1935, Victor Hugo
France, 1936, Victor Hugo
France, 1938, Victor Hugo
France, 1953, Hernani
France, 1985, Victor Hugo
France, 2003, Esmeralda
France, 2003, Gavroche
Grenada, 2001, King Karlos
Grenada, 2001, King Karlos
Guernsey, 1975, Victor Hugo's House
Guernsey, 1975, Monument to Hugo
Guernsey, 1975, United Europe Oak
Guernsey, 1975, Tapestry Room
Guernsey, 1997, Gilliatt fighting Octopus
Guernsey, 1997, Gilliatt grieving on Rock
Guernsey, 2002, Victor Hugo
Guernsey, 2002, Cosette
Guernsey, 2002, Valjean
Guernsey, 2002, Inspector Javert
Guernsey, 2002, Cosette and Marius
Guernsey, 2002, Novel and the score for «Les Misrables»
Guinea, 2007, Pavarotti in Rigoletto
Guinea, 2007, Pavarotti in Rigoletto
Guinea, 2008, Anna Frank, cat, Victor Hugo
Guyana, 2001, Rigoletto
Guyana, 2001, Ernany
Hungary, 1948, Victor Hugo
Hungary, 1952, Victor Hugo
Italy, 1973, Caruso as Duke of Mantua
Italy, 1986, Amilcare Ponchielli and Scene from «La Gioconda»
Jersey, 1982, Hugo, his house on Jersey
Liechtenstein, 2012, Quasimodo
Luxemburg, 1953, Victor Hugo's House
Luxemburg, 1977, Victor Hugo
Luxemburg, 2002, Victor Hugo
Maldives, 2001, Rigoletto
Maldives, 2001, Rigoletto
Malta, 1956, Les Gavroches
Malta, 2002, Îðåñò Kirkop as the Duke
Marshall Islands, 2003, «Mors 14/20 HP Tourer» near Hugo's Monument
Mexico, 1985, Victor Hugo
Micronesia, 2010, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo
Micronesia, 2010, Victor Hugo
Monaco, 2002, Victor Hugo
Monaco, 2002, Scenes from Hugo's novels
Mozambique, 2002, Victor Hugo
Nevis, 2010, Henri Dunant and writers
Nicaragua, 1975, Giuseppe de Luca as Rigoletto
Niger, 1985, Victor Hugo with his son
Poland, 1952, Victor Hugo
Portugal, 1993, Verdi and «Rigoletto»
Rumania, 1964, Jean Athanasiu as Rigoletto
Rumania, 1964, Traian Grozavescu as Duke in «Rigoletto»
Rumania, 1989, Gavroche
Rumania, 2002, Victor Hugo
Russia, 1996, Ballets «Esmeralda» and «Salambo»
San-Marino, 2001, Ernani
San-Marino, 2001, Verdi and «Rigoletto»
San-Marino, 2007, Esmeralda (sculpture by Lollobrigida)
Sao Tome e Principe, 2007, Esmeralda
Sierra Leone, 2010, Henri Dunant and writers
St. Kitts, 2010, Victor Hugo
St. Vincent, 1996, Notre Dame Cathedral
St. Vincent, 1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
St. Vincent, 1996, Heroes of «The Hunchback of Notre Dame»
St. Vincent, 1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
St. Vincent, 1996, Phoebus and Esmeralda
St. Vincent, 1996, Esmeralda and Quasimodo
St. Vincent, 1996, Esmeralda
St. Vincent, 1996, Quasimodo as a hero
St. Vincent, 1996, Quasimodo abd friends
St. Vincent, 1997, Caruso as Duke of Mantua
Togo, 1977, Victor Hugo and his house in Paris
Togo, 1977, Victor Hugo and Jersey
USA, 1987, Caruso as Duke of Mantua
USA, 1997, Richard Tucker as Duke and Jose
USSR, 1952, Victor Hugo
Vietnam, 2002, Victor Hugo
Wallis & Futuna, 1985, Victor Hugo
Congo, 1977.08.20, 
Brazzaville. 175th Birth Anniv of Hugo
France, Paris, post office on avenu Victor Hugo
France, Paris, post office on place Victor Hugo
France, 1953.06.06, Paris. Hernani
France, 1953.12.12/13, Besancon. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.02.23, Besancon. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.02—03, Montfermeil. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.02—05, Clichy. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.04.20, Clichy. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.07.18, Gavarnie. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.07.31, Paris. Victor Hugo
France, 1985.10.19—20, Rosny sous Bois. Gavroche
France, 2002, Besanson. Year of Victor Hugo
France, 2002.02.18—05.18, Dole. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.02.23—24, Besanson. Year of Victor Hugo
France, 2002.02.26, Paris. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.05.19, Dole. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.05.26, Ris-Orangis. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.06.23, Paris. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.09.28—29, Rolland. Victor Hugo
France, 2002.10.01—12.31, Paris. Victor Hugo
France, 2003.08.30, Paris. Barricade
France, 2003.08.30, Paris. Notre-Dame de Paris
Great Britain, 2002.03.05, London. Hugo Bicentenary
Guernsey, 2002.02.06, Guernsey. Victor Hugo
Jersey, 1975.06.05, Jersey. Book
Luxemburg, 1971.05.30, Mondorf-les-Bains. Victor Hugo
Luxemburg, 2002.11.29., Luxembourg. Chateau de Schengen
Togo, 1977.02.26, Lome. Victor Hugo
Vietnam, 2002.02.26, Vietnam. Victor Hugo
Wallis & Futuna, 1985.03.07, Mata-Utu. Victor Hugo
Bulgaria, 1978, 
Victor Hugo
Russia, 2002, Sergei Lemeshev as Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto
Bulgaria, 2002.09.18, 
Victor Hugo
