The Victor Hugo House in Paris is hosting a special thematic exhibition centered on this subject, titled Hugo and Architecture: From Stone to Pen. Running from June 11 to November 22, 2026, visitors ...

“An unspeakable ceiling of shadows; a depth of obscurity that no diver can fathom; a light mingled with the obscurity, a strange somber vanquished light; brightness reduced to powder.” Victor Hugo’s ...

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is presenting an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. With its Third Resonance, GAM ...

Victor Hugo's name has deservedly been attached to the cry for social justice. Indeed, with such socially charged books such as Les Misérables (1863) and The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), the ...

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

Quote of the day by Victor Hugo, “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” As a leader of the Romantic movement, Hugo survived 19 years of political exile. He championed the ...

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THE purpose of this paper is to review the history of Victor Hugo’s fame. It may thus be possible to arrive at an opinion, that shall not be founded on individual taste or mere caprice, as to the ...