Actress Lesley Nicol narrates a heartwarming story about Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables. Actress Lesley Nicol narrates the true story of Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, and his wife ...
The great-great-grandaughter of Victor Hugo has conjured a bohemian home from a sheep barn on the rustic estate where she ...
A life-sized bronze sculpture of French writer Victor Hugo has been made for the island centre to be dedicated to him, by a well-known fashion designer. Nicole Farhi CBE made the sculpture, which will ...
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 ...
On a bitterly cold day in February 1846, the French writer Victor Hugo was on his way to work when he saw something that affected him profoundly. A thin young man with a loaf of bread under his arm ...
Les Misérables novelist Victor Hugo was treated very differently by the two Channel Islands he lived in, according to his biographer. Hugo was exiled from his native France when Napoleon Bonaparte's ...
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 307 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March; $27. “AS ...
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