Charles Hugo (writer)
Charles Hugo | |
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Hugo c. 1854 | |
Born | 3 November 1826 Paris, France |
Died | 13 March 1871(1871-03-13) (aged 44) Bordeaux, France |
Resting place | Pere Lachaise |
Pen name | Charles d'Auverney Paul de la Miltière |
Occupation | Journalist, writer, photographer |
Language | French |
Spouse | Alice Lehaene |
Children | Jeanne Hugo |
Relatives | Victor Hugo, Adèle Foucher |
Charles-Victor Hugo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl viktɔʁ yɡo]; 4 November 1826 – 13 March 1871) was a French journalist, photographer, the second son of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher.
Life and work
When Charles took up the fight against capital punishment in 1851 and found himself dismissed by the courts, he was jailed for 6 months for an article in L'Evénement. His father Victor Hugo gave a memorable speech in his defence on 10 June 1851.[1]
When Louis-Napoleon came into power in 1851, Charles-Victor joined his father in voluntary exile in the island of Jersey, together with August Vacquerie he photographed family and friends, intending to publish a volume titled Jersey et les îles de la Manche, with poetry and drawings by Victor-Marie, prose by Vacquerie, Charles-Victor, and his brother, François.
In 1868 he started along with his brother François-Victor the newspaper Le Rappel.
He died of a stroke while on his way to meet his father for dinner.[2]
Appalling misfortune. Charles died this evening, 13th. Sudden stroke of apoplexy
— Victor Hugo, Choses vues, 13 March 1871
- Victor Hugo c.1854
- Victor Hugo in Jersey c.1852
- Victor Hugo c.1853
References
External links
- Victor Hugo family tree
- v
- t
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- Hans of Iceland (1823)
- Bug-Jargal (1826)
- The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829)
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
- Les Misérables (1862)
- Toilers of the Sea (1866)
- The Man Who Laughs (1869)
- Ninety-Three (1874)
- Inez de Castro (1820; published in 1863)
- Cromwell (1827)
- Amy Robsart (1828)
- Hernani (1830)
- Marion de Lorme (1831)
- Le roi s'amuse (1832)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1833)
- Marie Tudor (1833)
- Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
- La Esmeralda (1836; libretto only)
- Ruy Blas (1838)
- Les Burgraves (1843)
- Torquemada (1882)
- "Claude Gueux" (1834)
collections
- Odes et poésies diverses (1822)
- Nouvelles Odes (1824)
- Odes et Ballades (1828)
- Les Orientales (1829)
- Les Feuilles d'automne (1831)
- Les Chants du crépuscule (1835)
- Les Voix intérieures (1837)
- Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840)
- Les Châtiments (1853)
- Les Contemplations (1856)
- La Légende des siècles (Part One 1859)
- Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865)
- L'Année terrible (1872)
- L'Art d'être grand-père (1877)
- La Légende des siècles (Part Two 1877)
- Le Pape (1878)
- La Pitié suprême (1879)
- L'Âne (1880)
- Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit (1881)
- Final part of La Légende des siècles (1883)
- La Fin de Satan (1886)
- Dieu (1891, 1941)
- Toute la Lyre (1888, 1893, 1897, 1935-1937)
- Les Années funestes (1898)
- Dernière Gerbe (1902, 1941)
- Océan, Tas de pierres (1942)
- Le Verso de la page (1960)
- Œuvres d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1814-20 (juvenilia, 1964)
- Le Rhin (1842)
- Napoléon le Petit (1852 pamphlet)
- William Shakespeare (1864 essay)
- Actes et Paroles (1875)
- The History of a Crime (1877)
- Religions et religion (1880)
- Léopoldine Hugo (daughter)
- Charles Hugo (son)
- François-Victor Hugo (son)
- Adèle Hugo (daughter)
- Jeanne Hugo (granddaughter)
- Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (father)
- Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
- Hauteville House
- Maison de Victor Hugo
- Juliette Drouet
- Avenue Victor-Hugo (Paris)
- Bust of Victor Hugo
- La Soeur de la reine
- Hugo (crater)