Most famous for the classics Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Marie Hugo was born on February 26, 1802. A poet and a painter with more than 4,000 drawings to his name, Hugo would ...

WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry almost a century ...

LES Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame author Victor Hugo is one of the world’s most celebrated writers. You’re probably familiar with his most famous works – or at least their movie ...

John Hollander is the author of numerous books, including "Figurehead: And Other Poems," "Selected Poetry," "Tesserae and Other Poems" and the anthology "Committed to Memory." He is Sterling professor ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Victor Hugo is the mind behind Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, he is honoured today by Google’s Doodle. A French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, Victor Hugo, ...

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 ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 (Sale info: For Sale). "Above his doomed head the cruel lash doth whirl;/ 'Tis Monday--at the village inn yestreen the churl/ Drank fury, shouts and ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 (Sale info: For Sale). [See entry 01430147 for commentary accompanying this entry.] The Exhibition of Paintings of the International Art Institution, 694 ...