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23 unusual facts about Victor Hugo


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The name Hugo, proposed by Jean Meeus, was received in honour of the French writer Victor Hugo.

Alexander Veltman

("Kalimeros" is a Greek equivalent of Buonaparte, the original family name of Napoleon I; Veltman probably got the idea for this kind of wordplay from Victor Hugo's 1828 poem "Bounaberdi".

Bar-le-duc jelly

Notable references exist in the historical record about the spread being enjoyed by celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Berne Convention

The Berne Convention was developed at the instigation of Victor Hugo of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale.

Café Philosophique

Certain intellectuals that have frequented the cafe for philosophical discussions throughout history have been Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Honoré de Balzac Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, François-Marie Arouet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, Honoré de Balzac and Denis Diderot amongst others.

Cincinnati riots of 1884

The French author Victor Hugo even compared the riot to the storming of the Bastille, calling the rioters champions of justice and heroes.

Émile Eudes

He became associated with the 'free thinkers', a humanistic, non-religious movement associated with the exiled Victor Hugo.

Exformation

In 1862 the author Victor Hugo wrote to his publisher asking how his most recent book, Les Misérables, was getting on.

Hugo Island

The island was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Dr. J.B. Charcot, who named it for the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo, grandfather of Charcot's first wife, whose maiden name was Jeanne Hugo.

I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla

He also translated Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables from French into Sinhala as Manuthapaya which became quite popular among readers.

Janet Mead

In October 2001, she directed the Romero Company's annual production at the Melbourne Trades Hall Auditorium, an inventive adaptation by Damien Mead of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

Jules Favre

When Louis Napoleon was elected President of France, Favre openly opposed him, and on 2 December 1851 he tried with Victor Hugo and others to organize armed resistance in the streets of Paris.

Lysefjord

French writer Victor Hugo poetized in Toilers of the Sea admiring the scenery after a visit in 1866 that the Lysefjord was the most terrifying of the ocean reefs.

Marianna Toumassatou

Toumassatou has participated in various theatrical plays, such as Aristophanes' Iphigenia in Aulis and The Clouds, and a theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, as well as in television series', such as in the critically acclaimed soap opera Vera sto Dexi, which made her popularity rise.

Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham

He disagreed with the philosophy of Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's famous novel, which seemed to imply that a change of outward conditions would effect a change of character, that the social arrangement was radically wrong, and that the "paralysis of the person" was contingent on "the narrowness of the lot", which ran counter to his beliefs.

Octave of Easter

Quasimodo, protagonist of the 1831 French novel Notre Dame de Paris (most often called in English The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo, was found abandoned on the doorsteps of Notre Dame Cathedral on the Sunday after Easter, AD 1467.

Saint Peter Port

Hauteville House, Victor Hugo's house of exile, which is now a museum under the aegis of the city of Paris).

Victor Hugo, French writer, In exile in St-Peter Port from 1855 to 1870.

Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Travailleurs de la Mer”, published in 1866 and dedicated to Guernsey, where he spent 15 years in exile, mentions Castle Carey.

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1830 – 1890) was an early professional portrait photographer who created photogravures of many famous contemporaries including Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt.

Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho

His government's composition was essentially made up of second-line political figures, and his government was jokingly referred to as "Os miseráveis de Victor Hugo" ("The miserables of Victor Hugo"), a play on the French author Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables.

Víctor Hugo Peña

He is named after both his father Hugo and the author Victor Hugo.

Vladimir Stasov

He called Diaghilev "a decadent cheerleader" in print and Mir iskusstva "the courtyard of the lepers" (an image borrowed from Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris).


24601 Valjean

It was named after Jean Valjean, the main character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, who was known as 24601 during his 19 years in prison.

Aleksei Ilyich Kravchenko

He was therefore most successful with illustrations of Romantic writers (e.g. Nikolay Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Victor Hugo and Stefan Zweig).

Ameen Rihani

He eventually became familiar with the writings of Shakespeare, Hugo, Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Whitman, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Thoreau, Emerson and Byron, to name a few.

Anne of France

She makes a fleeting appearance in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris: we are told that in December 1481, the Archdeacon of Josas, Claude Frollo, unsuccessfully attempts to block her visit to the cathedral cloister because she is a woman, then refuses to attend on her visit.

Bishop Myriel

Bishop Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, referred to as Bishop Myriel or Monseigneur Bienvenu, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius

In addition to the fictional characters and members of Verne's family, several other historical individuals appear, specifically: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Baron Haussmann, Napoleon III, Said bin Sultan, the Earl of Cardigan, Florence Nightingale, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel.

Comprachicos

Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs is the story of a young aristocrat kidnapped and disfigured by his captors to display a permanent malicious grin.

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

She also associated with the European artistic intelligentsia, including Alexis de Tocqueville, Honoré de Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine, and Franz Liszt.

Émile Bayard

At the end of the 19th century, with a growing interest in photography displacing documentary drawing, Bayard moved to illustrating novels, including Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, L'Immortel by Alphonse Daudet, "Robinson Crusoé by Daniel De Foë", and From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.

Feast of Fools

Victor Hugo recreated a picturesque account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Quasimodo serves as King of Fools.

François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil

In Les Misèrables Victor Hugo refers to his works as "stupid romances" which the favourite reading of Madame Thénardier.

Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall

In 1862, he made the authorised British translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which was reissued in 1864 and 1879.

Gabriel Gabrio

Gabrio is possibly best recalled for his roles as Jean Valjean in the 1925 Henri Fescourt-directed adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Cesare Borgia in the 1935 Abel Gance-directed biopic Lucrèce Borgia and as Carlos in the 1937 Julien Duvivier-directed gangster film Pépé le Moko, opposite Jean Gabin.

Judicial system of post-Napoleonic France

In Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean receives a sentence of five years hard work in the galleys for the small crime of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's children.

Laurent Marqueste

He was also the author of portrait busts and statues of Victor Hugo, Léo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre and a large output of classical subjects.

Marion Delorme

Her name has been popularized by various authors, especially by Alfred de Vigny in his novel Cinq Mars, by Victor Hugo in the drama Marion Delorme, and by Amilcare Ponchielli and Giovanni Bottesini in two operas of the same title.

Medardo Ángel Silva

They all read this poetry in the original language, by authors including BaudelaireHugoRimbaud, and Verlaine.

Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais

Montreuil is the setting for part of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, where it is identified only as M -sur-M in past translations.

Nahapet Rusinian

While in Paris, Rusinian audited courses on literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and was influenced by the ideas of Lamartine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Victor Hugo, and other political philosophers.

Patron-Minette

Patron-Minette was the name given to a street gang in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables and the musical of the same name.

Rock Island Public Library

The twelve authors carved into the sandstone are the last names of Homer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virgil, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Burns, Esaias Tegner, Alighieri Dante, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and George Bancroft.

Saadat Hasan Manto

He started his literary career translating works of literary giants, such as Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Russian writers such as Chekhov and Gorky.

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

The commune was popular during the 19th century with artists and writers and Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Sisley and Degas all had villas here at one time or another.

Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis

Félicité de Genlis appears as a character in the works of the following writers, among others: Honoré de Balzac (Illusions perdues), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) and Jane Austen (Emma).

Teófilo Braga

It was a work that borrowed directly for its base the themes from Victor Hugo's La Légende des siècles, and captured in verse all the essential classicism of Judaism and Christianity.

Waldbühne Sigmaringendorf

The first play in 1928 was Gerhart Hauptmann's ‘Der arme Heinrich’, in 2011 Waldbühne Sigmaringendorf showed Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking.

Walter Herries Pollock

Among the subjects he discussed included the works of Richelieu, Colbert, Victor Hugo, Sir Francis Drake and Théophile Gautier.