TWA Poets: Victor Hugo

1802 -1885

It’s the birthday of the man who said, “To love another person is to see the face of God.” That’s French novelist Victor Hugo, born in Besançon, France, on this day in 1802. He also said, “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.”

He wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) when he was in his…