LAPIN: So Victor Hugo writes "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" in 1831. The cathedral, by this point, is in a state of neglect and disrepair, still recovering from the French Revolution just a few ...

For years, a namesake debate has simmered in Hugo, a Washington County city of 15,000 people about 18 miles north of St. Paul: Was the town named after the venerated French writer Victor ...

Victor Hugo is the most iconic authors of French Romantic movement. Known for his works that weaved political upheavals of his age in timeless tales, Hugo was one of the greatest literary ...

The backlash from critics helped to get the subject trending: "A respectful thought to Victor Hugo who, on this day of French bac, shines a light on the vulgarity and stupidity, external of our ...

Considered the greatest and best known French writer of all times, Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besancon, eastern France, on February 26, 1802. From an early age, he showed a commitment to ...

Considered one of the greatest French authors of all time, Victor Hugo cemented his place in the literary canon with The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and his epic historical novel Les Miserables.