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The mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, Mexico, symbolically married a female crocodile in a 230-year-old Indigenous ritual seeking ...
Set in 19th century France, “Les Miserables” is a sprawling musical chronicling the pitiful state of the impoverished masses in 19th century France, based on an 1862 novel by Victor Hugo ... director ...
Warhol's "Work Clothes," foreground, next to the "Victor Hugo" portraits, at the FAAP Museum exhibition in São Paulo last Tuesday. Lela Beltrão The organizers attribute the coincidence of both ...
Two Victor Hugo Trails have been launched in Guernsey to celebrate the island's literary and historical heritage. The two trails allow people to learn more about him and his exile in Guernsey ...
VICTOR HUGO THE ARTIST.; Exhibition of Sepia Drawings, Portraits, and Caricatures of the Poet at the Lenox Library.
The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo offers a rare glimpse into the dark and moody world of the renowned writer best known for his novels The ...
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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 of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables, but less known is his work as an illustrator — now the subject of a new exhibition in London.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees. He ...
In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...