Victor Hugo
1802–1885 · novelist, poet · France
Arts and ideas83 years old in 1885
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1802
- 18042 years old
- 181412 years old
- 183028 years old
- 184846 years old
- 185250 years old
- 185250 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187068 years old
- 187472 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187573 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188583 years oldDies
Connected to
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Napoleon III · opponents
1852 Hugo went into exile under Napoleon III and attacked him in pamphlets such as Napoléon le Petit.
Source: wikipedia:Victor_Hugo - AR
Auguste Rodin · sculptor and subject
1889 Rodin was commissioned in 1889 to make a monument to Victor Hugo, four years after the writer's death.
Source: wikipedia:Auguste_Rodin
