Charles Dickens captured daily hardships, while Victor Hugo wrote sweeping epics of struggle and redemption but which author ...

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

Forget Jean Valjean and Quasimodo, here are three things you might not know about this French polymath. Hugo once said that ...

he Royal Academy has used that quote as the title of this exhibition, which marks the first time Hugo’s drawings have been shown in the UK in half a century argues that Hugo’s writing and drawing go ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

Astonishing Things, the RA show's title comes from a comment Vincent van Gogh made on seeing Victor Hugo's drawings.

A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted ...

To mark Nuit des Musées 2025, Victor Hugo's house in Paris invites you to take part in a special nocturne on Saturday May 17.

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