Charles-Victor Hugo (4 November 1826 – 13 March 1871) was a French journalist, photographer, the second son of French novelist

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

and his wife Adèle Foucher.

Life and work

When Charles took up the fight against capital punishment in 1851 and found himself dismissed by the courts, he was jailed for 6 months for an article in L'Evénement. His father Victor Hugo gave a memorable speech in his defence on 10 June 1851. When Louis-Napoleon came into power in 1851, Charles-Victor joined his father in voluntary exile in the island of

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, together with August Vacquerie he photographed family and friends, intending to publish a volume titled ''Jersey et les îles de la Manche, with'' poetry and drawings by Victor-Marie, prose by Vacquerie, Charles-Victor, and his brother, François. In 1868 he started along with his brother François-Victor the newspaper Le Rappel. He died of a stroke while on his way to meet his father for dinner. File:Victor Hugo by Charles Hugo, c1854.jpg, Victor Hugo c.1854 File:Victor Hugo à Jersey, sur le rocher dit "des proscrits" (c.1852).jpg, Victor Hugo in Jersey c.1852 File:Charles Hugo Portrait of Victor Hugo c1853.jpg, Victor Hugo c.1853

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Victor Hugo family tree
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hugo, Charles 1826 births 1871 deaths Hugo family 19th-century French male writers 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century French photographers