It was at the La Comédie-Française where Hugo brought his controversial new play, “Hernani,” that became a spark plug for Paris’s greater societal and political tensions Wiki Commons/Frank ...

Installation view ‘Eros Hugo’ Auguste Rodin’s “Iris étude” (1893, left) and “Victor Hugo, assis, nu, étude pour le Monument avant” (1909, right) (photo by Benoit Fougeirol, Terra Luna Films) (click to ...

FeatureDuring 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 ...

The apartment which Victor Hugo rented from 1832 to 1848 at 6 Place Royale (now Place des Vosges) is currently laid out in such a way as to take you through his life, evoking his writing through ...

With an immense literary production and his remarkable public presence, Victor Hugo (1802–85) remains best known in the Anglophone world for his novels. But he was also a poet, playwright, politician, ...