Excerpt from The Poetry of Victor Hugo Feb. 26, 1802 victor-marie Hugo born at Besancon 1802 Elba, Corsica, Naples, Paris, Madrid 1812 Paris 1815 - 1818 A student in the boarding school of Cordier and Decotte Receives honorable mention from the Academy for a poem in a prize competition Gains prizes in the poetical competitions Of les jeux Floraux of Toulouse F ounds with his brothers a critical review, Le conservateur lz'tte'mz're (i 819 - 182 I) 1 Paris, 1863. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.