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After a thorough restoration, workers are returning the 150-year-old copper statues to the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Cardi B wows in a cowboy-inspired ensemble at Beyoncé's worldwide Cowboy Carter Tour in Paris on June 22. Ayesha Curry is all ...
Today, it is the burial place of 80 of France’s greatest political scientific and literary figures, including Victor Hugo, Voltaire and Rousseau, along with a select group of dead Revolutionaries.
Gasps were heard around the world on April 15th, 2019, when Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a jewel of gothic art perhaps best memorialized by Victor Hugo, suddenly went up in great tongues of flame.
Source: Benh LIEU SONG/Wikimedia Commons When in Paris you simply must make a beeline for the Louvre. This incredibly famous and iconic museum is one of the must-see things in the city. It was ...
PARIS, Sept. 24.—It may be regarded as a crowning triumph for Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor, that twenty-eight years after the head of his statue of Victor Hugo, now erected in the Garden ...
Victor Hugo, Mushroom, 1850. CCØ Paris Musées / Maisons de Victor Hugo The Bowels of Leviathan is one of the largest and most abstract pieces in the exhibition.
Sow has often chosen historic themes and heroic characters—he has completed a 35-piece work about the Battle of Little Big Horn, a series on Zulu warriors and a bronze statue of Victor Hugo.
“Astonishing Things” was Vincent Van Gogh’s observation about Victor Hugo’s work; we don’t know whether he was talking about his prose, poetry or art - probably the prose.
Victor Hugo’s The Cheerful Castle, c. 1847. - Paris Musées / Maisons de Victor Hugo Paris - Guernesey Still, that (possible) subject sums up the claustrophobia in general of these drawings, which ...
The marks of Hugo’s life can be found across Paris. I only have one day to find them, so this is an abridged visit, involving the Metro and walking – always a pleasure in a city that seems ...