A bronze sculpture of French writer Victor Hugo has been unveiled to mark the 170th anniversary of his arrival in Guernsey.

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 ...

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 ...

Theatrical reading is one of the performance art forms featured in the installation “Ceiling of Shadows (La voûte des ombres): A Night of Victor Hugo,” which will highlight Hugo’s artwork and writing.

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 ...

On the 210th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth, Christie’s announced the sale of The Hugo Collection on April 4th. An important group ...

Wander through Beaux-Arts architect Henri Labrouste’s 1868 reading room at Bibliotheque Nationale de France and you realise what an astonishing place it is. The garlanded cast-iron pillars hold the ...

To fans of “Les Misérables,” the announcement that its creators were going to tinker with one of musical theater’s most reliable crowd pleasers must have seemed like sacrilege. Sure, it’s appropriate ...

The last several months have witnessed something rare in art — the birth and consolidation of a new art myth. A longstanding belief has been toppled, replaced by a brand-new conviction. The fable: ...

BEIJING -- The French writer Victor Hugo has become very fashionable in China rather suddenly. That's because of what Hugo had to say about the sacking of the Summer Palace at the end of the Second ...