Birth of Victor Hugo February 26th, 1802. (Months Past).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

POSSIBLY THE MOST famous French author of all time was appropriately conceived on an exceptionally high plane -- `almost in mid-air', his father later maintained, on `one of the highest peaks of the Vosges Mountains'. As a hoax a stone memorial was erected in the 1960s at the supposed spot just below the summit of the 3,000 ft Donon peak, high above the Rhineland where Major Leopold Hugo was serving with his battalion in May 1801.

Victor Hugo himself, whose motto was `Ego Hugo', preferred to think that he had been conceived higher still, in the Alps, close to 6,000 ft up on Mont ...

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