WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry almost a century ...

The people of Guernsey forgave Hugo's bohemian lifestyle because he was French, his biographer said Les Misérables novelist Victor Hugo was treated very differently by the two Channel Islands he lived ...

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Hugo, Minn., first got its name in 1882 — the same year that France's pre-eminent wordsmith, Victor Hugo turned 80, and English-born, Canadian-bred engineer Trevanion William Hugo emigrated to ...