[HUGO VICTOR]: (1802-1885) French Poet & Novelist of the Romantic Movement. A 19th century manuscript copy of the Birth Certificate of Victor Hugo, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d., in French. The manuscript copy is an extract of the Civil Records of the municipality of Besancon, submitted to the Court Registry, the original of which was signed by Charles Antoine Seguin, Deputy Mayor of the commune, on the 8th day of the month of Ventose, tenth year of the Republic, confirming that Victor-Marie Hugo was born the previous day at half past ten in the evening and is the son of Joseph Leopol Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie-Francoise Trebuchet and that the gender of the child was acknowledged as being male, and further naming two witnesses as Jacques Delelee and Marie-Anne Dessirier. Elegantly penned in dark fountain pen ink and with some further manuscript notes in a different hand in red ink at the foot of the document, confirming that Hugo was born on the 26th February 1802 at 10.30pm and that the birth was registered and a certificate issued on 27th February 1802. With blank integral leaf. VG

]