UPI

Google honors author Victor Hugo with new Doodle

June 30 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the 155th anniversary of the final chapter of novel Les Miserables being released by paying homage to its author, Victor Hugo, with a new Doodle. Google's ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Victor Hugo: Acclaimed Author, Unknown Furniture Designer

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, ...
Architectural Digest

Inside Hauteville House, the Victor Hugo–designed Home Where the Author Lived in Exile

In his literary masterpiece Notre-Dame de Paris, French author Victor Hugo mused that architecture is “thought written in stone.” And this is also the perfect way to describe Hauteville House, his ...
scmp.com

Les Miserables author Victor Hugo’s drawings, ‘as poetic as his writing’, shown in London

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator – the subject of a new exhibition in London. “Astonishing ...
KCRW

Victor Hugo Drawings at the Hammer

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 ...
The Economist

Victor Hugo’s surreal, forgotten art

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...
Los Angeles Times

Victor Hugo’s rarely seen art is as intimate and innovative as his famous books

When the French writer Victor Hugo died in 1885, nearly 2 million people joined his funeral procession in Paris. The poet, novelist and dramatist had written some of the most revered books of all time ...
Country Life

Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RA

A colossal toadstool towers above a drab landscape, at once ominous and lonely, its red cap the only hint of colour in a sea of brown, as an almost human face peeks from its stem. It would look at ...
The Denver Post

“Les Mis” star Helena Bonham Carter has family ties to author Victor Hugo

LOS ANGELES — Helena Bonham Carter apparently shares more with Victor Hugo than just a role in the film based on his novel. A study by genealogy website Ancestry.com reveals Victor Hugo was a ...
Observer

Victor Hugo’s Hidden Drawings: Was the ‘Les Mis’ Author Also One of the Greatest Artists of His Time?

The Hammer Museum's exhibition of Victor Hugo's drawings will make one wonder why the 'Les Mis' author wasn't better known for his art. French poet and writer Victor Hugo, drawn by R. Boyden (1865 – ...
The New York Times

EDMOND ABOUT ON VICTOR HUGO.; A FRENCH AUTHOR'S CRITICISM OF HUGO'S NEW VOLUME OF POETRY THE POET'S CHILDREN. Les pilotes Jason, Palinure, et Typhlos.

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