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 ...

For nearly three decades, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a mainstay of the Boston bookstore scene at its storied spot on Newbury Street. It carried a shifting trove of 150,000 used books. In 2016, owner ...

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 ...

OLYMPIO: THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO 540 pp.) — Andre Mourois — Harper $5.95). In 1822, France was not quite ready for Romanticism. When a British company came over with Othello, the pit howled: “Down ...

With his vivid imagination, profound insights, and masterful storytelling, Victor Hugo is one of the greatest literary voices of all time. He has left an indelible mark on literature that transcends ...

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 ...