Here in Paris, our hotel is located not far from the neighborhood where Victor Hugo, ... graffiti scrawled on a pillar during the Paris Commune of July 28, 1871, ...

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 ...

The uprising that Victor Hugo so vividly commemorated and romanticized in “Les Misérables” was in ... John Merriman reconstructs the uprising of the Paris Commune that killed as many as ...

Victor Hugo, the celebrated ... In the 150 years since the Paris Commune, there has been no shortage of opportunities for the working class to take power as it did in October 1917.

The uprising that Victor Hugo so vividly commemorated and romanticized in “Les Misérables” was in fact a small affair, overshadowed by other eruptions that shook the City of Light during the ...

In modern-day Montfermeil, the setting of Victor Hugo’s novel, ... And many of them likely live in a place such as Montfermeil, a hardscrabble, housing-project-heavy commune east of Paris, ...

In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees. He stepped into a café to rest, picked up a newspaper and read of a tragic accident in ...