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Actress Lesley Nicol narrates a heartwarming story about Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables. Actress Lesley Nicol narrates the true story of Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, and his ...

Victor Hugo was born two hundred years ago this year and his countrymen have been trying ever since to contain him. They resorted first to the tried-and-true: ostracism and outrage at his brazen ...

As Graham Robb writes in his biography of Hugo, the author’s initial due date for the manuscript was April 15, 1829—but he missed it. A year soon passed, during which a new deadline was ...

OLYMPIO: THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO 540 pp.) — Andre Mourois — Harper $5.95). In 1822, France was not quite ready for Romanticism. When a British company came over with Othello, the pit howled ...

The Drawings of Victor Hugo”, at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces Hugo’s passion for illustration, 140 years after his death. The exhibition’s notes say that while the Romantic author and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees.

Mushroom is one of some 70 works by the French author to go on display at the RA’s Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, which Lea curated. ‘It's a long overdue exhibition. The last major ...

The 19th-century author of “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ... Still, Besançon has capitalized on those precious six weeks, naming Victor Hugo schools, a Victor Hugo square, erecting many ...