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 ...
Although better known for his sprawling Romantic novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, celebrated French author Victor Hugo spent much of his time drawing.
When the French novelist died in 1885, he left behind The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables – and a fragile cache of jaw-dropping art ...