Though he wrote more than a century ago, French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) continues to capture the imagination of contemporary readers both in France and around the world. In the United States, he is best remembered as the author of the novel "Les Mis DEGREESD'erables" (1862), which has been adapted for the stage, and of "Notre-Dame-de-Paris" (1831), more commonly known to Americans as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." But Hugo was also a poet and dramatist, a great religious and social thinker, and one of the most important shapers of French Romanticism. As a poet, he created new verse...
Though he wrote more than a century ago, French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) continues to capture the imagination of contemporary readers both in...
