Les miserables unabridged6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848 but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Academie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Academie Francaise. Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon's army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. ![]()
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