A dramatist, novelist and a poet and a famous French Romantic Author what else is required to guess his name. Yes! We are talking about Victor Hugo whose literary career was over 60 years long. During his literary career he gave some masterpiece to the world.  Let’s jump straight to the list of Victor Hugo Fun Facts.

1. Victor Hugo was born in Besançon, France. His date of birth is February 26, 1802.

2. Full name of Victor Hugo was Victor-Marie Hugo

3. Hugo’s hair color was grey.

4. Victor Hugo’s father name was Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo. Joseph was the son of a carpenter. But with hard work he was selected as a general for Napoleon Army.

5. Victortravelled many countries of Europe because of posting of his father in different places.

6. He had two siblings. Victor was the third born. His two brothers were Abel Joseph Hugo, Eugène Hugo.

7. When victor was 16 years old his parents decided to part ways.

8. Han d’Islande was his first novel. It was published in year 1823.

9. Hugo started writing mere at the age of 14. There are two pieces of work which Hugo wrote in his childhood. None of them was published.

10. Although Hugo was a writer but at the age of 8 Hugo started liking painting. He used to draw for his family and friends. He never painted for public exhibitions.

11. Hugo is remembered as a writer of Romantic Movement.

12. Hugo married to Adele Foucher in 1822 who was his neighbor. Adele was Hugo’s first love from his childhood.

13. Adele’s first born was Leopoldine (1824).

14. Hugo’s mother had an affair with the Commanding Officer of his husband.

15. Hugo had five children. Their names were Léopoldine, Charles, François-Victor, and Adele. One of his kid Léopold died in inception.

16. Hernani and Ruy Blas are Hugo’s famous plays. They were written in 1830 and 1838 respectively.

17. It took Hugo 20 years to plan for his masterpiece work Les Miserable. The novel was published in 1862.

18. Hugo’s first complete novel was Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In French it is Notre-Dame de Paris. The novel was published in 1831.

19. The novel gained so much success that a Disney featured film Hunchback Notre-Dame was made in 1996.

20. Les Miserable was such a hit that the publisher earned more than 1 million franc out of it.

21. The book has five sections:

• Fantine
• Cosette
• Marius
• The idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue St. Denis and the last Jean Valijean.

22. The love of French people for architecture inspired him to write the novel Noter-Dame de Paris.

23. The start of Hugo’s wedding was not good. His brother Eugene suffered mental breakdown at Hugo’s wedding banquet.

24. In 1851, Napoleon III was in power of France. Napoleon III brought changes in France’s parliamentary constitutions. Hugo opposed it that’s why Napoleon exiled him in 1851. Hugo lived in channel Island and Brussels until 1870.

25. Hugo returned to France in 1870 but the situation was worse those days. Because of short supply of food Hugo even ate animals from Paris Zoo.

26. In 1878, Hugo’s health condition got worse when he suffered a cerebrovascular stroke. Though he recovered soon.

27. The whole French nation celebrated Hugo’s 80^th birthday.

28. Because of his political interest Hugo once elected as a member of National Assembly.

29. Hugo was a Christian from his childhood. But with the passage of time his views related catholic religion changed.

30. In 1985, Les Miserables was first performed at the Barbican Centre, London.

31. Famous Tony Award “Best Book of a Musical” was awarded to the play.

32. The book Les Miserable has 19,000 pages.

33. The film of Musical was released in 2012. The cast of the movie was Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham-Carter, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Sasha Baron Cohen and Samantha Barks.

34. Anne Hathaway won Oscar for his acting in Musical of Les Miserables.

35. As the book has relevancy with civil war situation so the book was also well liked in America.

36. A metro station is named after Hugo to honor him.

37. Hugo had extramarital affair with Juliette Drouet.

38. The street where Victor Hugo’s used to live is named after him.

39. Hugo died of pneumonia at the age of 84. His funeral lasted for 10 days. Hundreds and thousands of French people attended his funeral.

40. Most popular works of Victor Hugo are: “Les Miserable”, “The Man Who Laughs”, and “Notre-Dame de Paris”.

41. To admire his great work a crater on planet Mercury has given the name Hugo.