Which French Romantic writer authored 'Les Misérables'?

The French Romantic writer who authored Les Misérables was Victor Hugo. First published in 1862, the novel is one of the major works of nineteenth-century French literature and follows the intertwined lives of Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, Javert, and other characters.

Hugo combined a sweeping historical story with arguments about poverty, justice, law, grace, religion, and social inequality. The plot begins in 1815 and builds toward the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832, while Hugo’s extensive digressions explore topics such as the Paris sewers, convents, street children, and the Battle of Waterloo.

The book was published while Hugo was in self-imposed exile, and its first volumes appeared in Brussels and Paris in March and April 1862. It is often confused with the stage musical and its film adaptations, but Les Misérables began as a long historical novel. Hugo also wrote The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, another landmark of French Romanticism.