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Victor Hugo, The Town of Viandan ... including the scary octopus which is the poster image for the show. His tall Lighthouse in brown ink, black crayon and white gouache, showing steps apparently ...
A curator has brought out the annotated manuscript of Victor Hugo’s world-famous 1862 novel Les Misérables. The ink is still deeply black, as if Hugo had only recently put down his pen ...
Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...
crowding the streets and boulevards through which the great procession was to move that accompanied the body of Victor Hugo to his last resting place in the Pantheon. View Full Article in ...
Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Victor Hugo’s son Charles described the Guernsey home where the French author wrote Les Misérables as a ...
The great-great-grandson of writer Victor Hugo has said he hopes plans for a new centre in his name will allow his legacy to live on. Photographer Jean-Baptiste Hugo visited the island to capture ...
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 ...
By Catherine Porter BESANÇON, France — The statue of Victor Hugo has loomed outside the city hall of his birthplace, situated on the Esplanade for Human Rights, since 2003, his white beard ...
Indeed, for Victor Hugo, making pictures was another mode of ... including the scary octopus which is the poster image for the show. His tall Lighthouse in brown ink, black crayon and white ...