Mont Donon.

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As legend has it, Victor Hugo, renowned author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was conceived “almost in mid-air” near the highest peak of the Vosges Mountains in May of 1801.


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Where Victor Hugo Was Allegedly Conceived
A sandstone block marks the spot atop Mont Donon.

Mont Donon - Wikipedia
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Mont Donon is the highest peak in the northern Vosges. It is a Category 2 climb in the Tour de France. On Donon, there is an 80 metre tall lattice tower for TV ...
Victor Hugo

Peer of France (1845–48)

Woodburytype of Hugo by Étienne Carjat, 1876

Senator of Seine
In office
30 January 1876 – 22 May 1885
Constituency Paris
Member of the National Assembly
for Gironde
In office
9 February 1871 – 1 March 1871
Constituency Bordeaux
Member of the National Assembly
for Seine
In office
24 April 1848 – 3 December 1851
Constituency Paris
Member of the Académie française
In office
7 January 1841 – 22 May 1885
Preceded by Népomucène Lemercier
Succeeded by Leconte de Lisle
Personal details
Born Victor Marie Hugo
26 February 1802
Besançon, Doubs, France
Died 22 May 1885 (aged 83)
Paris, France
Resting place Panthéon, Paris
Nationality French
Political party Party of Order (1848–51)
Independent liberal (1871)
Republican Union (1876–85)
Spouse(s) Adèle Foucher
(m. 1822; d. 1868)
Children

Léopold Victor Hugo
Léopoldine Hugo
Charles Hugo
François-Victor Hugo
Adèle Hugo
Education Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Occupation Writer, poet, journalist, drawer
Writing career
Genre Novel, dramaturgy, theatre, poetry
Literary movement Romanticism
Notable works

Hernani
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Ruy Blas
Les Châtiments
Les Contemplations
La Légende des siècles
Les Misérables
Toilers of the Sea
Years active 1829–1883

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Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.