The Memoirs of Victor Hugo are the classic memoirs of Victor Hugo, first published in 1899. The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man, Victor Hugo. This is not a diary of events arranged in chronological order, nor is it a continuous autobiography. It is less and it is more, or rather, it is better than these. It is a sort of haphazard chronique in which only striking incidents and occurrences are brought out, and lengthy and wearisome details are avoided.