Victor Hugo's Accomplishments

One of the main points that influenced Victor Hugo were the events happening in Besancon, his homeland. He is best known as the leader of French Romanticism in literature in the 1800s. He made many forms of poetry in which he received honorable mentions for from the French Academy. He was also influenced by Literary

People get inspiration from so many things. Some people get inspiration from things they read about, some people get inspiration from things they dislike, or from new things they learn. Some authors get their inspiration from life experiences. Edgar Allan Poe had lots of disappointment and darkness in his life. This darkness feel can be found in many of his works such as “The Tell-tale Heart”, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Similar to Poe, S.E. Hinton used her experience of being a teenager growing up in the 60s to write her book, “The Outsiders”, a book about the life of a group of teens who are growing up in the 60s. Similar to Poe and S.E. Hinton, Elie Wiesel used his experiences of living in multiple concentration camps to write a memoir to share his experience with the world. As demonstrated above, authors can use their lives as inspiration for their writing.

Albert Camus was a renowned author and journalist; not only that, Camus’ occupation was a philosopher that profoundly contributed to absurdism. Camus was well known in the 1940s for his political journalism, novels and essays. (Biography) With works such as The Plague and The Stranger, Albert Camus impacted the world with his literature to an extend. Albert Camus endured many hardships from his childhood life all the way to his adult life, but living a short life he lived as a innovative mastermind. His works have left an everlasting impression on the literary world, and were able to leave a spellbinding legacy.

Edgar Allan Poe was very successful during his life. He Is known for the suspense and mystery in his short stories. He was the first master of the short stories , well was reportedly the first master. Poe had an rough childhood and used that to contribute to his writing .

In conclusion, Edgar Allan Poe had a very interesting and hard life. He took the struggles he faced and turned them into amazing stories while using his imagination to add variety. He will forever be remembered in literature for many years to come and will continue to influence writers to be original and think out of the

has three siblings: Louis, Mane, and Monique Braille. He died January 6, 1852 in Paris, France.

He inspired other writers to create poems that were darker than the poems at the time. He took his life experiences and was able to turn them into stories. He was able to construct his own world, one full of death, sadness and pain much like Poe’s own life. He created the first detective story essentially creating his own genre of writing. He inspired other writers to write their own stories in a detective genre, as well as questioning other writer’s integrity.

The great “Renaissance man” Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci was born on April 15th, 1452 in Anchiano, Tuscany (now known as Italy). Like many couples back then, Leonardo’s parents were not married to each other. His father being Piero Frucsino Di Antonio Da Vinci (worked as a well-known notary) and his mother (being theorized as a young slave brought from the Middle East) named Caterina. Leonardo’s mother is a large mystery as not many people know what happened to her and where she went, but many people know about Leonardo’s father’s life as his was the one who took care of him. Living on his father’s estate he was raised by his step-mothers, his father, and later his uncle and grandparents. Though he’s seen as an extremely intelligent man today with an I.Q. of about two hundred and twenty, young Leonardo did not get much of an education beyond basic reading, writing, and mathematics. However, Leonardo’s artistic talents were noticed at a young age, and at about 14 years old, Leonardo was the

th the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter,

In his later life Hugo became involved in politics as a supporter of the republican form of government. After three unsuccessful attempts, Hugo was elected in 1841 to the Académie Francaise. This triumph was shadowed by the death of Hugo's daughter Léopoldine in 1843. It was only after a decade that Hugo again published books. He devoted himself to politics, advocating social justice. After the 1848 revolution, with the formation of the Second Republic, Hugo was elected to the Constitutional Assembly and to the Legislative

By the 1840’s Hugo was one of France’s most celebrated literary figures (“Victor Hugo” 1). In 1841 he was elected into the French Academy and was also nominated for the Chamber of Peers (“Victor Hugo” 1). In 1843 he had to step back from writing for a little bit because his daughter and her husband died in an accidental drowning (“Victor Hugo” 1). In private Victor started to work on a new novel which would soon turn into the world famous book “Les Misérables” (“Victor Hugo” 1). In 1851 Hugo fled to coup in Brussels and he lived there until 1870 (“Victor Hugo” 1). Among most of the books that Hugo published at the time his best seller was the book “Les Misérables” which was published in 1862, this book became not only a best seller in Europe but it also became a huge seller in the United States (“Victor Hugo” 1). A year after Hugo returned to France he became a deputy in the National Assembly but he ended up retiring later that month (Barrère, Jean-Bertrand 1). Hugo’s life became pretty dark after that, in 1871 one of his sons died and then again in 1873 another of his sons died, his work after those moments became darker than his earlier writing (Barrère, Jean-Bertrand

He initially went to Brussels before travelling to Guernsey, a small island in the English Channel and off the coast of Normandy. He remained there in exile for nineteen years, until the fall of Napoleon III in 1870. Even when Napoleon III offered amnesty to all exiles, Hugo declined the offer, as it meant he was unable to criticize the Napoleonic regime. (State Library Victoria) While in exile, he continued to publish anti-Napoleon III works, such as Napoleon le Petit and Histoire d’un crime. Hugo also published three poetry collections and three novels, The Man Who Laughs and The Toilers of the Sea but by far his most famous work written and published during his exile was Les Misérables, which was published in 1862. (Houston, 1988) He had begun to entertain ideas of writing about poverty and misery in France since the early 1830s, soon after Hugo witnessed the June Rebellion of 1832. Yet it took another thirty years for him to write the novel and publish it. It was published in five parts in France before being translated into several languages and sent around the world. While the novel was scorned by critics, the masses whom consumed the novel found it incredibly popular. One of the shortest messages before the digital age was between Hugo and his publisher, with Hugo writing to ask about the success of Les Misérables

HUGO IS UNDENIABLY sociable. He is a curious soul and always finds himself in an investigative mood. There is a desire to understand everything that is around him—such as the pavement and the skyscrapers that were built upon them. Because of his naturally inquisitive

Victor Hugo’s life was full of sad tragic events and political affairs. Hugo once said, “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.” And living is exactly what Hugo accomplished. He wrote numerous stories and essays, lived a vivacious love life and had heated opinions about the government in France. In the end of it all though, Hugo was a great romantic author who still lives on today in his works of literature.

In his 1832 novel Notre-Dame of Paris, Victor Hugo interlaces discussions of medieval architecture with a story set among the people of medieval Paris. In his story, he introduces us to a number of grotesque and morally questionable characters, whose actions and appearances often bridge the line between empathetic and unpleasant. For each of these main characters, Hugo establishes a location for his readers to associate with them, and thus compares his characters to the architecture of the city, many of whose buildings and locations are mixtures of dissimilar architectural styles or are crooked and uneven. The architecture of these locations, as well as the symbolism of the architectural styles, provides us with both an emotional and a literal backdrop to the characters and their behaviors. Through these associations, Hugo uses the