The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo offers a rare glimpse into the dark ...

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 ...

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.