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Victor-Marie Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo. 26 Feb 1802 – 22 May 1885. Historical Events prior to Hugo’s birth . King Louis XVI (1774-1792). Marie Antoinette M. French Revolution 1789. The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789. Historical Events in Hugo’s Early Childhood. First French Republic (1792-1804).

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Victor-Marie Hugo

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  1. Victor-Marie Hugo 26 Feb 1802 – 22 May 1885

  2. Historical Events prior to Hugo’s birth King Louis XVI (1774-1792) Marie Antoinette M

  3. French Revolution 1789 The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789

  4. Historical Events in Hugo’sEarly Childhood First French Republic (1792-1804)

  5. First French Empire (1804-1814)

  6. Family Influeces Father Mother

  7. Early Life Events Travel Separation and to Paris

  8. House of Bourbon Restored (1815-1848) Louis XVII (1815-1824) Charles X (1824-1830)

  9. Early Poetry

  10. Secret Engagement

  11. Personal Tragedy Hélas ! vers le passé tournant un oeil d'envie,Sans que rien ici-bas puisse m'en consoler,Je regarde toujours ce moment de ma vieOù je l'ai vue ouvrir son aile et s'envoler ! Je verrai cet instant jusqu'à ce que je meure,L'instant, pleurs superflus !Où je criai : L'enfant que j'avais tout à l'heure,Quoi donc ! je ne l'ai plus ! Alas! turning an envious eye towards the past,inconsolable by anything on earth,I keep looking at that moment of my lifewhen I saw her open her wings and fly away! I will see that instant until I die,that instant-- too much for tears!when I cried out: "The child that I had just now--what! I don't have her any more!"

  12. Tenants of Romanticism Intuition Over Reason Imagination Emotion Nature teaches truth Individual is more important than society

  13. Intuition Over Reason

  14. Imagination

  15. Lack of Emotion Pre-Romanticism

  16. Emotion - Romanticism

  17. Nature Pre-Romanticism

  18. Nature-Romanticism

  19. Individual Over Society

  20. Famous Novels

  21. Historical Context for Les Miserable The book begins in the year of Napoleon Bonaparte’s final defeat at Waterloo

  22. It spans the next 20 years leading up to The June Rebellion

  23. Events Leading up to TheJune Rebellion Louis-Philippe I, The Citizen King (1830-1848)

  24. Economic Challenges Portrait of "Cosette“ by Émile Bayard from the original edition of Les Misérables(1862)

  25. Cholera and the death ofGeneral Lamarque

  26. After the June Rebellion Second Republic (1848-1852) Second Empire (1852-1870) Napoleon III

  27. Politics and Exile

  28. Declining Years

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