It was at the La Comédie-Française where Hugo brought his controversial new play, “Hernani,” that became a spark plug for Paris’s greater societal and political tensions Wiki Commons/Frank ...

The Maison de Victor Hugo on Place des Vosges unveils a lesser-known side of the writer's life with 'Hugo the decorator,' an ...

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Place des Vosges in Paris. The location of Victor Hugo's apartment for 16 years. image: Beckstet via Wikimedia Commons During a recent trip to Paris, I visited the former apartment of Victor Hugo, ...

Decorations are seen at the apartment Victor Hugo rented from 1832 to 1848 in Place des Vosges in central Paris, France, June 14, 2022. Victor Hugo is well known around the world for his novels, but a ...

Parisians should have been able to cross the Place des Vosges in mid-December to discover a new-look museum inside the former home of the writer Victor Hugo. But the unveiling of the renovations was ...

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, ...

The book first appeared in 1831 and helped save the central Paris landmark which, at the time, was in a serious state of dilapidation. Now, Hugo’s classic is at the top of the Amazon best-seller list, ...

The archeological crypt under the forecourt of the Notre-Dame cathedral is to re-open to the public on Wednesday with an exhibition which pays homage to author Victor Hugo and architect Eugène Viollet ...

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

Victor Hugo, one of the greatest French writers of the 19th century, is well known for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Less known is the fact that his vast talents overflowed from the ...