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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 ...
The mostly dominant Rodriguez has somehow gone 0-4 against Victor Hugo, but it looks like he won’t have to worry about competing against him this time around at CJI 2. With Nicky Rod working ...
More news in the heavyweight division: Luke Griffith defeated Victor Hugo via decision in the co-main event in a wild exchange of dominant positions. Hugo got the early lead on Griffith, taking and ...
CJI Champ” main event, the event is also stacked with several BJJ champions. Victor Hugo, who is fresh off a UFC FPI 10 win over Rodriguez, will take on Luke Griffith in the co-main event ...
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.
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.
It would look at home among Surrealist paintings, but this 1850 drawing (below) pre-dates the movement by more than half a century and wasn’t even made by a professional artist: instead, it is the ...
“Astonishing Things” was Vincent Van Gogh’s observation about Victor Hugo’s work; we don’t know whether he was talking about his prose, poetry or art - probably the prose. But it’s not ...
Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...
A curator has brought out the annotated manuscript of Victor Hugo’s world-famous 1862 novel Les Misérables. The ink is still deeply black, as if Hugo had only recently put down his pen ...