Showing posts with label Victor Hugo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victor Hugo. Show all posts

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Great people: Victor Hugo.

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French writer. He was born on February 26, 1802, in France.


Hugo's genre was novel. Victor Hugo's movement was Romanticism.

His famous works: Les Misérables (1862), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Ruy Blas (1839).



Victor Hugo married and had five children.

He died on May 22, 1885, in France.



Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Literature. Part ninety eight.

                                                           Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

This novel was written in XIX century.

Jean Valjean, Javert, Fauntine, and Cosette are main characters of the book. The se people do a lot of different things.

Jean Valjean raised Cosette after Fantine died. Javert committed suicide.

The characters change over the years.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty one.

                                                        Victor Hugo.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/milan-italy-may-20-2020-portrait-1742719619


“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

Source of information:

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/victor-hugo

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Literature. Part forty nine.

                                       The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.

This novel is about the Middle Ages in Europe. Many historic things are described in it.

Main characters had a lot of relations in the book. Esmeralda is a street dancer and she wanted to find her family. Quasimodo has a hunchback and is deaf. He is a bell ringer. Pierre Gringoire is a poet and philosopher.

Good and bad moments happened with people. Characters saved, loved, and found each other.

At the end Esmeralda and Quasimodo died.

Novel describes medieval France and Gothic architecture. There are many paintings, cartoons, movies about this story.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-photo/bronze-copies-paris-sights-isolated-on-7271149

Bronze copies of Paris sights isolated on white