Most famous for the classics Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Marie Hugo was born on February 26, 1802. Most famous for the classics Les Miserables and the Hunchback of ...

LES Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame author Victor Hugo is one of the world's most celebrated writers. You're probably familiar with his most famous works – or at least their movie ...

When the French writer Victor Hugo died in 1885, nearly 2 million people joined his funeral procession in Paris. The poet, novelist and dramatist had written some of the most revered books of all time ...

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

Famous French author Victor Hugo is best known for a string of literary successes – such as The Huncback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables Get all the very latest news in Ireland straight to your email ...

Place des Vosges in Paris. The location of Victor Hugo's apartment for 16 years. image: Beckstet via Wikimedia Commons During a recent trip to Paris, I visited the former apartment of Victor Hugo, ...

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 307 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March; $27. “AS ...

WHEN we read a beautiful poem it may very well happen that we find ourselves wholly fascinated by its charm, or possibly moved to tears by our interest in the fictitious story told us, so that we seem ...

Parisians should have been able to cross the Place des Vosges in mid-December to discover a new-look museum inside the former home of the writer Victor Hugo. But the unveiling of the renovations was ...

Parisians should have been able to cross the Place des Vosges in mid-December to discover a new-look museum inside the former home of the writer Victor Hugo. But the unveiling of the renovations was ...