Victor Hugo, on writers:

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

- Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo, on books and reading:

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

- Victor Hugo.

Born on this day – Victor Hugo:

Victor Hugo

Writer

Politician

February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885

Credits:

Written work:

Amy Robsart (1821); Cast Up By the Sea (1879); Cromwell (1827); Hernani (1830); History of a Crime (1877); How to Be a Grandfather (poems) (1877); Les Miserables (1862); Marion De Lorme (1831); Mary Tudor (1833); Ninety-Three / aka Quatrevingt-Treize (1874); Ruy Blas (1838); Selected Poetry (poems) (2001); The Distance, the Shadows (poems) (1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame / aka Notre Dame de Paris (1831); The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829); The Man Who Laughs / aka L’Homme qui rit (1869); The Toilers of the Sea / aka Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866); Things Seen / aka Choses vues (1887).

Movies and television:

A csavargó (1918); A Fool's Revenge (1909); A New Life (1909); Aa mujô - Dai ippen: Hôrô no maki (1923); Aa mujô - Dai nihen: Shichô no maki (1923); Aa mujô re mîzerabûru dainihen (1923); Aa mujô: kôhen (1929); Aa mujô: zenpen (1929); AKA (2002); Al Bouasa (1978); Alagna: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (2014); Alta comedia (1970–1972); Angelo, tyran de Padoue (2009); Arm Joe (1998); Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2009); Binavayan (1997); Biography (1996); Bob herceg / Musical TV Theater (1987); Caccia all'uomo (1948); Choses vues (1985); Cineficción Radio (2021); Comédie-Française in cinemas (2018); Comédie-Française, derrière le rideau (2020); Delusions of Grandeur (1971); Der König amüsiert sich (1918); Der rote Henker (1920); Die Liebe und die Königin (1977); Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); Don Caesar de Bazan (1915); Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2021); El rey se divierte (1944); Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1985); Encounter (1958); Ernani (1981 / 1982 / 2007); Esmeralda (1905 / 1922); French Movie (2016); Gavroche (1987); Gavrosh (1937 / 1986); Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto, Melodramma in three acts (2008); Great Performances (1995); Great Performances at the Met (1987–2022); Hernani (1910 / 1911 / 1961 / 1975); Hugo the Hunchback (1910); Hunchback (1983); I riassuntini (2018); Il gobbo di Notre Dame (1998); Il tiranno di Padova (1946); Invitation au voyage (2020–2022); Janbarujan: kohen (1931); Janbarujan: Zenpen (1931); Jean Valjean (1961); Jean Valjean monogatari (1979); Kozete (1977); La conscience (1987); La déroute (1957); La Gioconda (1958 / 1979 / 1986 / 1988 / 2013); La joie de vivre (1956); La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède (1982); La régularité est le goût de la médiocrité (2016); La tragedia di Pulcinella (1913); Lail Almosaferin (2000–2002); Le crucifix (1909); Le débutant (1986); Le dernier jour d'un condamné (1985); Le Golden Show (2013); Le mariage de Quascimodo (2013); Le miroir à trois faces: Rigoletto (1966 / 1968); Le roi s'amuse (1909); Le téléthéâtre de Radio-Canada (1962); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1961–1963); Les Contemplations de Victor Hugo (2022); Les disparus de St. Agil (1938); Les Misérables (1888 / 1909 / 1912 / 1917 / 1922 / 1925 / 1934 / 1935 / 1943 / 1952 / 1958 / 1964 / 1967 / 1972 / 1978 / 1982 / 1988 / 1995 / 1998 / 2000 / 2012 / 2018–2019); Les Miserables (Part I) (1909); Les miserables (Part II) (1909); Les misérables (Part III) (1909); Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010); Les Misérables, Part 1: Jean Valjean (1913); Les Misérables, Part 2: Fantine (1913); Les Misérables, Part 3: Cosette (1913); Les Misérables, Part 4: Cosette and Marius (1913); Les Misérables: Flag of Love and Liberty (1950); Les Misérables: Gods and Demons (1950); Les Miserables: Shoujo Cosette (2007); Les pauvres gens (1938); Les travailleurs de la mer (1918); L'exilé (2002); L'homme qui rit: Creating the Play (2019–2020); Los miserables (1973 / 1981 / 2014); Lucrezia Borgia (1977 / 1980 / 1994 / 2009 / 2013); L'uomo che ride (1966); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977–1978); Mangeront-ils? (1957); Maria Tudor (1920 / 1917 / 1966); Marion de Lorme (1912 / 1918); Marion Delorme (1919 / 1967); Mashup (2021); Medallion Theatre (1953); Mest shuta (1993); Mil francos de recompense (1965); Mille franchi di ricompensa (1964); Monodrama Theater (1953); Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002); Notre-Dame de Paris (1996 / 1998); Novela (1964–1972); Nuestro amigo el libro (1964); O anthropos pou gela (2021); O Corcunda de Notre Dame (1957); On verra demain: Excursion en procrasti-nation (2019); Os Miseráveis (1958 / 1967); Par coeur (1998); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Plight of the Poor (1950); Poèmes à voir (2004); Portrait souvenir (1961); Prestige de la musique (1969); Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999); Quatre-vingt-treize (1921 / 1962); Return to Manhood (1957); Rigoletto (1909 / 1946 / 1963 / 1967 / 1977 / 1981 / 1982 / 1987 / 1989 / 2001 / 2003 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2019); Rigoletto a Mantova (2010); 'Rigoletto' di Giuseppe Verdi (1987); Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Ruy Blas (1909 / 1914 / 1948 / 1965 / 1972 / 2002 / 1912); Sea Devils (1953); Sefiller (1967); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 2 (2011); Sekai Meisaku Gekijou Kanketsu Ban: Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Part 1 (2011); Sirakaruwa (1957); Spectacle d'un soir (1967); St Joseph's Convent Documentary (2017); Super Hunchback (1992); Tausend Francs Belohnung (1974); Teatro de siempre (1967); Television Theater (1955–1997); Tempesta su Parigi (1948); Tense Moments from Great Plays / Notre Dame de Paris / Segments: Esmeralda; Les Misérables (1922); The Bishop's Candlesticks (1913 / 1929 / 1949); The Bishop's Treasure (1952); The Caped Crusader (2021); The Darling of Paris (1917); The Duke's Jester or A Fool's Revenge (1909); The Giant (1938); The Hunchback Bee of Notre Dame (2020); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911 / 1923 / 1939 / 1956 / 1966 / 1976 / 1982 / 1986 / 1996 / 1997); The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002); The King's Jester (1941); The Man Who Laughs (1921 / 1928 / 1971 / 2012); The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2012–2022); The Ordeal (1909); The Price of a Soul (1909); The Royal Opera: Rigoletto (2022); The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011); The Spanish Dancer (1923); The Toilers (1919); Toilers of the Sea (1923 / 1936); Torquemada (1976); Une Dame de Coeur (2004); Variations (1962); Verdi: Rigoletto (1961 / 2014 / 2016 / 2022); Whatever Happened to My Revolution (2018); Who's to blame? (2014); Wishbone (1995); Your Show Time (1949).

Victor Hugo, on books and reading:

He never went out without a book under his arm,

and he often came back with two.

- Victor Hugo.