![]() Hugo was a master of poetry, and his diction, versification, and subject matter (including spiritualism, occultism, and notions of a cosmic framework) were highly innovative, with his preface to Les Orientales (1829) advocating a complete freedom of inspiration for poetry. Their marriage later dissolved with her affair with the novelist and critic, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Hugo beginning a relationship with Juliette Drouet (which was to last until her death in 1883). He achieved literary success early on with his Odes of 1822, the year of his marriage to Adèle Foucher. Raised as a Catholic and a Royalist, the young Hugo travelled with his father to Italy and Spain. ![]() ![]() The third son of an army major, Victor-Marie Hugo, poet, novelist, dramatist, and the central figure in the French Romantic movement, was born in Besançon in 1802. ![]()
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