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 ...

RODIN'S STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO; Interesting Triumph of the Sculptor On the Poet's Fete Day. Share full article. Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES. Oct. 3, 1909; ...

A statue of Victor Hugo, ... It was transported from Paris to Cherbourg and then to Guernsey by steamboat before it was officially unveiled on 7 July 1914. Mrs Glencross said: ...

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 ...

Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris has fenced off a famous tomb to prevent lewd acts being performed on a statue. The effigy of 19th Century journalist known as Victor Noir has long been popular with ...

Why Paris's Centre Pompidou, not even 50 years old, must close for five years. Culture. ... Vandalism against Victor Hugo statue sheds light on 'neo-Nazi culture' in French city.

A statue of Victor Hugo by Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow in Besançon. Hugo's ambition was not just to tell a story, but to depict a place and time: late medieval Paris, the condition of its ...

Knorowski said Victor Hugo, author of “Les Miserables” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” headed an effort to create a gold medallion in honor of Lincoln after his 1865 assassination.

Greenpeace activists took a statue of French President Emmanuel Macron and placed it outside the Russian embassy in Paris on Monday to protest continued business ties between the two countries, as ...

Here in Paris, our hotel is located not far from the neighborhood where Victor Hugo, the author of the novel on which the musical is based, lived.

Police discovered a long-lost statue of The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison during an unrelated search nearly four decades after it was stolen from his grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.