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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

During his long exile in Guernsey, France's most famous writer obsessively arranged every corner of his home. Ornate yet strikingly modern, his decorative vision is now the focus of an exhibition at ...

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

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 – ...

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. We've all absorbed the myths he created – "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" – ...

Here are some of artnet News’s highlights of museum shows opening across the United States as we kick off a new season: The South Florida-based artist Mira Lehr’s exhibition uses the Greek myth of ...