Les Miserables Background Information
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Victor Hugo was born in 1802 at Besancon. His father was an
officer and eventually a general under Napoleon. He lived with
his mother after his parents separated and had literary ambitions
even as a child. By the age of 17, he had founded a magazine
with his brother. He married Adele Foucher and published his
first poetry collection at the age of 20.
In 1841 Hugo lost his first daughter and husband to an accident.
The incident marked the end of his first literary period. He
became involved in politics and became increasingly liberal. He
believed in free art, freedom in society and free speech. He
supported Louis-Napoleon at first, but turned against him after
1851 and eventually went in to exile in Brussels and Jersey...