Hugo has a deep understanding and feeling about the destruction of Yuanmingyuan. He once expressed his praise and regret for the destruction of Yuanmingyuan in his works. "Two robbers broke into Yuanmingyuan, one robbed Yuanmingyuan and the other burned it" is one of the most famous sentences.
Victor hugo, a representative writer of positive romantic literature in France19th century, a representative figure of humanitarianism and an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature, is called "Shakespeare of France".