Victor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition ...

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.

Julian Barnes's essay Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's new book The Paris Express We use cookies to ...

“Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo”, which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts on Friday, traces Hugo’s passion for illustration, 140 years after his death. The exhibition’s notes say ...

One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...

Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and ...

Victor Hugo Green, the creator of the Green Book, was born in New York City in 1892. He moved to Harlem in 1933 and began managing Robert Duke, his brother-in-law and a touring musician ...

Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by Victor Hugo. Ahead of a new show opening at the Royal Academy, Michael Hodges follows the path of the celebrated French writer and ...

Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables," but less known is his ...

French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning The Hunchback ... The exhibition's notes say that while the Romantic author and politician came to be a leading public figure in France in the ...