Quatrevingt-treize

by Victor Hugo

528 pages

Published July 8, 2025

About the author

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

Reviews

[Honorine Labarrère]

Je n'ai pas haï le livre mais il m'a bien énervé. Il y a des passages tellement beaux mais qui sont noyés dans des longueurs interminables... je ne suis toujours pas réconciliée avec Hugo, ce jour funeste n'arrivera pas.