The first major biography in English for over 20 years, detailing the life and work of the iconic 19th-century French writer, Victor Hugo, will be published in February. The new biography provides a ...
Les Misérables novelist Victor Hugo was treated very differently by the two Channel Islands he lived in, according to his biographer. Hugo was exiled from his native France when Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
It was at the La Comédie-Française where Hugo brought his controversial new play, “Hernani,” that became a spark plug for Paris’s greater societal and political tensions Wiki Commons/Frank ...