Short answers, pulled from the story.
Victor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general in Napoleon's army while his mother Sophie Trébuchet remained loyal to the deposed Bourbon dynasty.
Hugo became the figurehead of the Romantic literary movement with plays Cromwell published in 1827 and Hernani performed at the Comédie-Française in 1830. His novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame appeared in 1831 and quickly translated into other languages across Europe. He finally published Les Misérables in 1862 after seventeen years of planning.
He moved to Brussels then Jersey from which he was expelled for supporting L'Homme a local newspaper that had published a letter to Queen Victoria by a French republican deemed treasonous. He finally settled with his family at Hauteville House in Saint Peter Port Guernsey where he lived in exile from October 1855 until 1870.
Hugo produced more than four thousand drawings with about three thousand still existing today. Drawing became exclusive creative outlet between 1848 and 1851 when he worked only on paper usually in dark brown or black pen-and-ink wash sometimes with touches of white rarely with color.
Hugo died on the 22nd of May 1885 at fifty Avenue Victor Hugo now number 124. Death from pneumonia generated intense national mourning and More than two million people joined funeral procession in Paris from Arc de Triomphe to Panthéon where buried.