Hugo's 'Les Misérables' has taken many shapes in film and stage. Each version alters the original in surprising ways that ...

Victor Hugo was "the French equivalent of Shakespeare ... of Notre-Dame" – "even if we have never picked up one of his books". Still, it may come as a surprise to learn that beyond his talents ...

Except for one sentence and a few words here and there, “Les Misérables,” with music by French composer Claude-Michel ...

"I condemn slavery, I banish poverty, I teach ignorance, I treat disease, I lighten the night, and I hate hatred. That is ...

In the last few numbers of the Voltaire he has been cirticising no less an author than Victor Hugo in a way that can scarcely be pleasing to the veteran. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The Drawings of Victor Hugo”, at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces Hugo’s passion for illustration, 140 years after his death. The exhibition’s notes say that while the Romantic author and ...

The phenomenon that is Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s famous stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables marches on. Not content with the global success of ...

Novels he wrote in St Peter Port included Les ... Larry Malcic, chair of the Victor Hugo Centre Guernsey LBG, said: "This is ...