Quotes by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame partly to stop the cathedral being demolished, and Les Misérables as an argument about poverty and law. He was a peer of France, then a republican, then an exile on Guernsey for nineteen years after opposing Louis-Napoléon's coup. He campaigned against the death penalty for most of his life. Two million people lined the streets for his funeral, which is a fair indication of what he meant to the country.