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Jean-Bertrand Barrère
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Professor of French Literature, University of Cambridge, 1954–82; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Author of Hugo, l'homme et l'oeuvre and other works on Victor Hugo.
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Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Victor was the third son…
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