Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
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Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo | |
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Born | 15 November 1773 Nancy, France |
Died | 29 January 1828 (1828-01-30) (aged 54) Paris, France |
Rank | Field Marshal |
Spouse(s) | Sophie Trébuchet |
Children | 4 sons, among them Abel and Victor |
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf leɔpɔl(d) siʒisbɛʁ yɡo]; 15 November 1773 – 29 January 1828) was a French general in the Napoleonic Wars. He was the husband of Sophie Trébuchet and the father of four sons. He is best known for his relationship to his third son, the eminent writer and French peer, Victor Hugo.
Early life
Joseph Léopold Hugo was the youngest son of Joseph Hugo, a former adjutant in the army of the Kingdom of France, and Jeanne-Marguerite Hugo. His four elder brothers all served as soldiers, a profession he himself took up in 1787 when he enlisted at the age of fourteen. He met Sophie Trébuchet in 1796 in a town of France called Châteaubriant, marrying her the following year in Paris. They had three sons. Abel, Eugène [fr], and Victor.
Military career
Joseph Léopold Hugo was appointed an officer in 1790, and in 1791 he was appointed to a command in the Army of the Rhine. He fought in engagements along the length of the Rhine and as far as the Danube. Later, he was assigned as a battalion commander to fight against insurgents in Vendée and Brittany.
From 1800 to 1802, he was stationed in Besançon, after which point he transferred first to Marseille and afterwards to Bastia. There, he went into the service of Joseph Bonaparte, then King of Naples, and fought against insurgents in the kingdom. The King appointed him a Colonel in February 1808, for capturing and executing the famed guerilla leader Fra Diavolo. Hugo followed the King to serve in Spain throughout the Peninsular War, where he was appointed General.
After the retreat from Spain and the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813, General Hugo was demoted to the rank of Major by order of Napoleon. Later, after being restored to the rank of General, he remained with the army until Napoleon's abdication, later returning to his service during the Hundred Days.
Death
After being relieved of duty by ordinance in 1824, Joseph Léopold Hugo retired to his residence in Blois at the age of 51. On 29 January 1828 Hugo suffered a stroke and died at age 54; his body was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Publications
Hugo, writing under the pseudonym Genti, published several works throughout his life, including:
- Memoirs on the means of supplying the slave trade with free individuals, etc., Blois, 1818;
- Historical journal of the blockade of Thionville in 1815, and of the sieges of this city, Sierck and Rodemack in 1815, Blois 1819;
- Memoirs of General Hugo, Paris 1820.
References
- Mullié, Charles (1852). "HUGO (JOSEPH-LEOPOLD-SIGISBERT, comte)" . Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850 (in French). Paris: Poignavant et Compagnie.
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- Bug-Jargal (1826)
- The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829)
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- Les Misérables (1862)
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- The Man Who Laughs (1869)
- Ninety-Three (1874)
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- Hernani (1830)
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- Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835)
- La Esmeralda (1836; libretto only)
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- Nouvelles Odes (1824)
- Odes et Ballades (1828)
- Les Orientales (1829)
- Les Feuilles d'automne (1831)
- Les Chants du crépuscule (1835)
- Les Voix intérieures (1837)
- Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840)
- Les Châtiments (1853)
- Les Contemplations (1856)
- La Légende des siècles (Part One 1859)
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- L'Année terrible (1872)
- L'Art d'être grand-père (1877)
- La Légende des siècles (Part Two 1877)
- Le Pape (1878)
- La Pitié suprême (1879)
- L'Âne (1880)
- Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit (1881)
- Final part of La Légende des siècles (1883)
- La Fin de Satan (1886)
- Dieu (1891, 1941)
- Toute la Lyre (1888, 1893, 1897, 1935-1937)
- Les Années funestes (1898)
- Dernière Gerbe (1902, 1941)
- Océan, Tas de pierres (1942)
- Le Verso de la page (1960)
- Œuvres d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1814-20 (juvenilia, 1964)
- Le Rhin (1842)
- Napoléon le Petit (1852 pamphlet)
- William Shakespeare (1864 essay)
- Actes et Paroles (1875)
- The History of a Crime (1877)
- Religions et religion (1880)
- Léopoldine Hugo (daughter)
- Charles Hugo (son)
- François-Victor Hugo (son)
- Adèle Hugo (daughter)
- Jeanne Hugo (granddaughter)
- Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (father)
- Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
- Hauteville House
- Maison de Victor Hugo
- Juliette Drouet
- Avenue Victor-Hugo (Paris)
- Bust of Victor Hugo
- La Soeur de la reine
- Hugo (crater)
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