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1802 – 1885 · Besançon
Victor Hugo
The boy who won prizes, the man France buried like a king.
Born Besançon, France
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Victor Hugo was born in 1802 in Besançon, France. His father was a general under Napoleon, the emperor of France, so young Victor moved around a good deal as a child. He decided early that he wanted to be a writer, and by his twenties he was already famous for his poems and plays.
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