VICTOR-MARIE
HUGO
26 Feb 1802 - 22 May 1885
French
novelist and poet, most famous for his epics The Hunchback
of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables
(1862). He is widely regarded as the greatest French poet
and the most influential romantic writer of the 19th century.
Well over two million mourners turned out to join Hugo's funeral
procession from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon,
where he was interred.
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QUOTES
BY VICTOR HUGO
Key: "Quote" [relevant subjects] | [source issue] | original
source
"Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent."
[Music]
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"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
[Oxymoronic, Pleasure,
Sadness] | [1.19] |
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