Hugo French writer. Born in Besan?on in eastern France, he traveled to Italy and other places with his father when he was young, and returned to Paris with his mother when he was 11 years old. He enthusiastically supported the French Revolution and was forced into exile for 19 years during the French Restoration Dynasty. In 1827, he published a seated portrait of Hugo. In 1870, he published the poetic drama "Cromwell". In the preface, he proposed romantic literature and advocated principles such as the contrast between beauty and ugliness. He has since become the leader of the French Romantic literary movement. The successful performance of the play "Onani" in 1830 marked the victory of romanticism over classicism. His novels mainly include the novels "Notre Dame de Paris", "Les Misérables", "Sea Laborers", "The Laughing Man" and "1993", etc. He is also the author of "New Collection of Odes", "Oriental Song" and "Autumn Leaves" "Voices Collection", "Old Years Collection", "Punishment Collection", etc. The scripts also include historical dramas "The Duke in the Castle", "The King of Freedom", "Angelo" and so on. The basic themes of these works are to praise truth, goodness and beauty, to lash darkness, ugliness and cruelty. They are full of rich imagination and ingenious musicality, and have an elegant, delicate, majestic and simple artistic style. Hugo was the leader of the French Romantic literary movement. His 60-year creative career reflected the major historical and literary processes of France in the 19th century.