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Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, "Les Contemplations" and "La Légende des siècles" stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels "Les Misérables" and "Notre-Dame de Paris" (also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views refined as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.

This Statue of Victor Hugo is placed on the left side of the Cour d´Honneur (Court of Honor) of the Sorbonne University (When facing the chappel) and represents the Letters (On the right side theres a statue of Louis Pasteur representing Ciences).

2106 Hugo (1936 UF) is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1936, by Marguerite Laugier at Nice.

The name Hugo, proposed by Jean Meeus, was received in honour of the French writer Victor Hugo (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2106+Hugo).

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