The Hammer Museum's exhibition of Victor Hugo's drawings will make one wonder why the 'Les Mis' author wasn't better known for his art. French poet and writer Victor Hugo, drawn by R. Boyden (1865 ...

Understanding Victor Hugo, the artist, and tracing his footsteps through a hidden Paris. From the Sorbonne to the Church of Saint-Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by ...

Spiders, lonely towers, ecstatic octopuses and gigantic anthropomorphic mushrooms: welcome to the visual world of Victor Hugo.While the Les Mis author must have been one of the busiest people of ...

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. He ...

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 knotty, his black suit ...

Mr Hugo also visited Guernsey in 2014, where he marked the centenary of the Victor Hugo statue in Candie Gardens. He said that visit in particular made him want to embrace his own cultural ...

Andy Warhol with Victor Hugo, circa 1975. Getty. Halston's next lover was Victor Hugo. As seen in the Netflix show, they met in 1972 when the designer hired the young Venezuelan as a sex worker.

After seven years in Oak Cliff, Victor Hugo’s is closing its doors. The bar and restaurant, located at 1115 N. Beckley Ave., is shutting down after sustaining ...

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 ...

Indeed, for Victor Hugo, making pictures was another mode of thought, though a less finished product than his prose. There’s an awful lot of brown ink here, though he diversifies into pencil or ...

Supporters of opening a Victor Hugo Centre in Guernsey have announced that they have received £2m in funding pledges and donations so far. The money is being raised to fulfil plans to create a ...