Victor-Marie Hugo 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 greatest French writers of all time. Demain, des l'aube. Potentially the most famous Victor Hugo poem, Demain des l'aube was written four years after the death of his recently married daughter Leopoldine, who drowned alongside her husband in a boating accident on the Seine in 1843. He is one of the greatest French writers of all time.
