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 ...

June Nights In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers Pours out far away an intoxicating scent; Eyes shut, ears half open to noises, We only half sleep in a transparent slumber. The ...

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 is the subject of the latest Google Doodle, which went up on Friday to mark 155 years since the final chapter of his epic novel Les Misérables was published. The beloved French poet, ...

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 ...

Today’s Google doodle is a callout to French novelist, poet and human rights activist Victor Hugo. The doodle marks the publication date of what is arguably his most well-known novel, “Les Misérables.

Hugo's novel tops Amazon's best-seller list in France, following Monday's fire that ravaged the cathedral. The 19th century story was a campaign to get the cathedral restored. "The Hunchback Of Notre ...

When I hear the words Les Misérables, my mind often casts to the musical first and the film adaptation second. What I seem to almost always forget is that this story started life as a novel, and a ...

Based on the celebrated 1862 novel by French author Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is considered to be one of the great novels ...

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo highlights the famous French writer's love of drawing in a show of 70 of his illustrations French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback ...

Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed new movie seems inspired by the classic novel "Hunchback of Notre Dame," and that's a good ...

WHEN we read a beautiful poem it may very well happen that we find ourselves wholly fascinated by its charm, or possibly moved to tears by our interest in the fictitious story told us, so that we seem ...