Happy Birthday Monsieur Hugo!
The following taken from the Victor Hugo Centre website
On Monday 26th February we celebrated Victor Hugo’s 222nd birthday. Hugo was born on 26th February 1802 in the town of Besançon in eastern France near the border with Switzerland. He was the youngest son of Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1774–1828), a general in the Napoleonic army, and Sophie Trébuchet (1772–1821). Since Hugo's father was an officer in Napoleon's army, the family moved frequently from posting to posting, and so, in fact, little Victor only lived for six weeks in Besançon.
The Victor Hugo Centre celebrated the day with a ‘party’ in the evening at Les Cotils, where seventy-five supporters of the Centre gathered to hear an update on progress since last year’s birthday celebration
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