Ivan Vazov, born in 1850 to a wealthy merchant family in Sopot, a village before Bulgaria achieved liberation from Ottoman ...

Except for one sentence and a few words here and there, “Les Misérables,” with music by French composer Claude-Michel ...

Getting tickets for the first time slot of the day will allow you to beat the crowd and be one of the first visitors to the ...

Yet last week, as the consequence of a show put up in his old Paris home (now a state museum) to mark the ... director of the Victor Hugo House, the great man himself was partly to blame for ...

On the morning of 7 May 1821 an urgent task was performed at Longwood House on St Helena. A day and a half previously, the ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: On Place des Vosges, Paris’s oldest square, you’ll find the former house of Victor Hugo, which is now a museum that’s free to enter. – Laura French Straddling the ...

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

The sculpture, which museum director Johnnetta Cole describes ... a series on Zulu warriors and a bronze statue of Victor Hugo. A large man himself—Sow stands well over six feet tall—the ...

"Learning to read was the most important thing that happened to me in life. If I became a writer, it was because of the extraordinary pleasure I found in reading and the adventures I ...

Among these, the museum in Victor Hugo's house, who stayed there in 1843, perpetuates his memory and his amazement at “this magnificent and charming place, like everything that has the dual ...

This neighborhood, which lies on the eastern banks of the Seine River, is home to the enormous Musée du Louvre – a royal palace-turned-art museum ... notables like Victor Hugo, Voltaire ...

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