Excerpt from Les Mis rables Victor-marie hugo* was born in Besancon, Feb. Ruary 26, 1802. His father, General Hugo, was born at Nancy in 1773, and was the son of a joiner of that city. His mother's maiden name was Sophie Tr buchet; she was the daughter of a bourgeois of Nantes, and was married to General Hugo in Paris in 1796. 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.