| 单词 | Victor Hugo |
| 例句 | Like a character in a Victor Hugo novel, she tearfully explained her heartbreaking tale to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The 33rd President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Somebody read Victor Hugo—believe it or not I have officers who read— and ever since then we’ve been Lee’s Miserables.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod, in the sack, was uncomfortable, being painfully slammed against the famous writer Victor Hugo’s back and occasionally banged on the ground. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul,” said the famous writer Victor Hugo. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And even though I was urged to read all that I could, several teachers were dismayed to learn that I had read the novels of Victor Hugo and Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His case became a cause célèbre, drawing Victor Hugo, among others, to plead with Queen Victoria that O’Donnell’s life be spared. The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Spanish interlopers at the height of the Italian Renaissance — the “original crime family,” as the popular Showtime series describes them — they inspired works by Dumas, Victor Hugo and Rafael Sabatini, among others. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Writers like Victor Hugo and Edmond Rostand lined up to create new works for her. ‘She Should Be Revered, and She Is Not’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Lacking a restaurant option, lunch would be a picnic, so I hoped I’d find the Victor Hugo market open to stock my backpack. Frugal Traveler Blog: Finding Frugal Toulouse, Despite Two Holidays 2013-05-14T18:39:15Z The title is derived from an actual publication called “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” originally published in 1938 by a postal worker named Victor Hugo Green. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The opera adapted from Victor Hugo’s play “Le roi s’amuse” features a political leader, the Duke, who has his way with all the women in his court and gets away with it. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But one of his last paintings, the 1870 “Ruth and Boaz,” takes a languid, biblical turn, romanticizing an episode made famous by Victor Hugo. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Maybe it was the marketing, which presented “Hunchback” as a complete departure from the dark Victor Hugo novel on which it was based, reframing it as a carnival with the tagline “Join the party!” ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25: ‘The Most R-Rated G You Will Ever See’ 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Not content with making society debuts, or finding a good husband, Eugénie prefers to read, and sneaks out to attend Victor Hugo's funeral. "I was really shocked": Mélanie Laurent on "Mad Women's Ball" and how "problem" women are controlled 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Library’s shelves were stocked with the full Harry Potter collection and strategically placed vintage books like Victor Hugo’s collected works. A Second Life for a Saratoga Springs Showpiece 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z That’s why when I’m traveling with my camera, I’ll often take pictures of, you know, Keats’s bed, Shelley’s grave or Victor Hugo’s desk. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z Or think of The Negro Motorist Green Book, published between 1936 and 1966 by a New York mailman named Victor Hugo Green. Underground is the history lesson America (and Ben Carson) needs 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Taking a nearly 500-page novel by Victor Hugo and turning it into a 91-minute, animated extravaganza suitable for children is risky, to be sure. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Victor Hugo, a staunch opponent of the coup, fled to Brussels, while Alexis de Tocqueville retired from political life to avoid joining the regime. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Parisian newspapers had closely followed the Missolonghi story, and one even published a lengthy Victor Hugo poem inspired by it. Delacroix's 'Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi' as a rallying cry 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Victor Hugo, the poet and novelist who furiously opposed the authoritarianism of the Second Empire proclaimed in 1852 by Napoleon III, sought refuge in the British Channel islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.” Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Haydn, Steve Reich and More 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z On Friday, the man last seen with the tiger, Victor Hugo Cuevas, was taken back into custody on a murder charge unrelated to the incident with the tiger, the Houston Chronicle reported. Houston tiger could still be in city, has likely been passed between homes: police 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z His comedy “L’Hotel,” which manages to put Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and other legends in conversation, premieres at the Pittsburgh Public Theater this fall. Ed Dixon, now playing multiple roles for ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ has a past full of transformations Novelist Victor Hugo admiringly wrote, “Take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux,” capturing its distinctive profile as a hybrid of ornate architectural confection and brawny cosmopolitan port. Bordeaux's Must-Visit Shops, Restaurants, and Hotels 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Footfalls echo as you pass the Victor Hugo museum and multiple art galleries. Seven Places in Europe We Call Home 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Its opening scene suggests a conventional story ballet set in the medieval era of the Victor Hugo novel that it’s based on. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo was a god in France and the world, and millions were in the street when he died. "I was really shocked": Mélanie Laurent on "Mad Women's Ball" and how "problem" women are controlled 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Sights include towns still bearing the scars of the 1944 Allied invasion and small villages like Villequier, where Victor Hugo once lived. Taking the Slow Boat (and Train) From London to Paris 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Not a one mentioned Victor Hugo Green, the author of the actual “Green Book,” in their acceptance speech. 2019 Oscars: Cringe-worthy "Green Book" Best Picture win marred an otherwise successful night 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Victor Hugo's novel wrestles with all kinds of big themes: social injustice, redemption through love, the power of providence. Twenty-five years on, they ask me if I was wrong about Les Mis?rables ... 2010-09-21T11:48:00Z While the insurgency ended overnight, it lasted long enough for novelist Victor Hugo to be caught in its crosshairs, pinned to a wall as bullets flew. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z Director Tom Hooper on Saturday presented his movie, an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, at the Berlin film festival. Hathaway eyes more musicals after `Les Miserables' 2013-02-09T21:46:04Z Based on Victor Hugo’s 1400-page novel, the musical follows Valjean from his 1815 prison parole, after serving 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread and for several attempts at escape. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z Drawing room in Hauteville House where Victor Hugo lived on Guernsey. Footsteps: Victor Hugo on the Island of Guernsey 2012-05-04T19:11:52Z To Victor Hugo, the Paris skyline was “more jagged than a shark’s jaw, upon the copper-colored sky of evening.” Bob Staake’s “Our Lady” 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Both are based on Victor Hugo plays and feature parents whose only children are killed. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo knew full well what he was about, on both fronts. ‘Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo’ Review: A Writer’s Other, Haunting Talent 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The photo of the funeral of Victor Hugo, a procession that was attended by 800,000 people, is, for him, “an extraordinary thing — someone on the street took it.” | Paris in Pictures 2012-03-02T19:00:53Z Like Atticus, George loves pulp novels and makes his living as the publisher of "The Safe Negro Travel Guide," the story's version of "The Negro Motorist Green Book" by Victor Hugo Green. "Lovecraft Country" is an intoxicating, myth-shattering hero's journey through a map of Black fear 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z In the musical — based on Victor Hugo’s historical novel of the same title — sad to say, the revolt eventually is put down. Perspective | The Hong Kong protesters have found an anthem in this song from ‘Les Miz’ 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z He imagined Henry James as a movie critic and composed odes to the photographer Nadar’s portraits of Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt. Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But the reason the film works on this more nuanced level, exploring poverty and politics and social hierarchies, is because Victor Hugo wrote it so well. Anne Hathaway on Les Miz, Singing Live and the Power of Hugh Jackman 2012-12-06T13:00:37Z But he demonstrates that both the solo-piano Prélude, Aria et Final and Les Djinns, a compact symphonic poem for piano and orchestra based upon a Victor Hugo poem, deserve to be heard far more frequently. Franck: Pr?lude, Choral et Fugue; Les Djinns; Variations Symphoniques; etc 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z Diderot Victor Hugo Beaumarchais Voltaire "Once in the Bastille, there is no afterwards." Quiz: Bastille in literature 2010-07-14T10:23:00Z The rest of the season focuses on fresh versions of more familiar titles: "Les Miserables," the blockbuster musical based on Victor Hugo's novel of the French Revolution, in a new 25th anniversary touring edition. 'Les Miz,' 'Rent' and Kathie Lee top 5th Avenue's next season 2011-02-13T23:23:04Z Even Victor Hugo cruelly referred to his lonely, suffering hunchback as “an almost.” Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z "Nothing is so powerful," Victor Hugo declared, "as an idea whose time has come." Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z Les Misérables Hit musical based on the Victor Hugo novel about a French peasant’s quest to redeem himself after spending several years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z From the musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, the film is an enormous, star-studded affair overlaid on a French revolution canvas yet painted with a naturalistic brush. With 'Les Miz,' a new kind of speech for Hooper 2012-12-21T15:31:17Z Adaptations of Victor Hugo’s paean to human suffering are inevitably bushwhacked by the novel’s mounting sentimentalities and coincidences. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z This is Victor Hugo’s novel, pushed to its terrifying extremes. What’s on TV Sunday: Grammys, ‘Girls’ and John Oliver 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z And Paris is studded with plaques honoring luminaries from Joan of Arc to Victor Hugo to Edith Piaf. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z For research, she retraced the hero Jean Valjean's route through France, visiting museums, archives, offices, jails and the house of the story's author, Victor Hugo, eventually producing illustrations for director Tom Hooper. Set designer Eve Stewart: 'Get me nine tons of Scottish seaweed!' 2013-02-03T20:00:03Z He cited Thomas Hardy and Victor Hugo as classic examples. What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z But not many kids in Chicago had learned to read before they were 4, and had made their way through “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” and Dickens and a load of Victor Hugo before they were 8. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The idea for “The Negro Motorist Green Book” belongs to Victor Hugo Green, a postal worker, who introduced it in 1936. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z At the core of the program were Liszt songs: five German ones in a set assembled by the performers, and four in French to poems by Victor Hugo. Matthew Polenzani of the Met Opera in a Solo Recital at Alice Tully 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The second gallery holds a suite of 23 drawings from 2022; they glower and churn, evoking those that Victor Hugo made in the mid-19th century. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z A character in the myth of Frenchness written by Victor Hugo and Disney. Woven Into the Fabrics of France 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z This isn’t Victor Hugo’s Paris anymore, but a stylized world that mingles 1960s chic, music hall and grand spectacle. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Brian Kite's magisterial staging brings intimacy and immediacy to Victor Hugo’s peripatetic plot about Jean Valjean, a saintly fugitive convict whose life has been forever blighted by the theft of a loaf of bread. A masterly 'Les Miserables' at La Mirada Theatre 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Anne Hathaway won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her turn in this adaptation of the musical theater sensation, itself adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo. Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in August 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z A spooky, twilit castle by Victor Hugo, its turrets formed by pushing around puddles of ink, could have been in the Morgan’s recent show “Drawing Surrealism.” Art Review: ‘Old Masters, Newly Acquired’ Shows Collectors’ Tastes 2013-06-27T21:09:01Z You don’t go to “Cats” for a stirring adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel that is literally about miserable people. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Fenimore Cooper, whose popularity in Europe followed immediately upon his first publication – Victor Hugo thought he was "the American Walter Scott" – is the most familiar version of this. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z The book was published by New York mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936-1966. From the "Green Book" to Buicks, PBS' "Driving While Black" examines the history of Black mobility 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z And Matt Kinley redesigned the production, adding in projected paintings by Victor Hugo — author of the classic novel of love and revolution in early 1800s France upon which the musical is based. Producer dares purists to love anniversary version of 'Les Miz,' coming to Seattle's 5th Avenue 2011-08-05T22:05:03Z Mr. Murphy’s show explores Halston’s volatile relationships with Victor Hugo, an escort who became his longtime companion, and Peretti, his model and jewelry designer who was, futilely, in love with him. Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo You don’t go to ‘Cats’ for a stirring adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel that is literally about miserable people. Box-office flop "Cats" gets a re-release 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This year marks the 200th anniversary of the emperor’s final defeat at Waterloo, “that desolate plain,” as Victor Hugo called it in a famous poem. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Asked who was France's greatest poet, André Gide responded with the famously rueful answer: "Victor Hugo, hélas!" Les Misérables – review 2013-01-13T00:07:04Z Indeed, Man Ray’s deathbed photograph of Marcel Proust makes a fitting bookend to Nadar’s of Victor Hugo. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z A study by genealogy website Ancestry.com reveals Victor Hugo was a political colleague of a cousin of the 46-year-old actress. 'Les Miz' star has family ties to Victor Hugo 2012-12-18T17:16:04Z The film's title, "Green Book," derives from a survival guide called "The Negro Motorist Green Book," which was published in 1938 by postal worker Victor Hugo Green. Spike Lee vs. white savior films: "BlackKklansman" Oscar nod is nearly 30 years overdue 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z There's a lot of hand-held camerawork here, a lot of rushing and swooping through the crowded, volatile slums of Victor Hugo's 19th-century France. Review: Hooper's `Les Miserables' is relentless 2012-12-10T20:49:09Z “Bad Seeds” opens with a quote from Victor Hugo. ‘Bad Seeds’ Review: A Scam Artist Teaches From the School of Life 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z He was referring to Victor Hugo, who like Halston invented himself and gave himself a new name, a play on his anatomy. Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Turner and Gustave Courbet, and writers such as Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo visited. Going to a spa? Try the original one, in Belgium. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z She thanked the cast and crew, "the most golden hearted group of loves whose talent knocked me sideways," and reserved particular gratitude for Victor Hugo. Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck 2013-02-10T21:57:39Z At the time, it was nearly shot by an off-duty deputy before being whisked away in a car by Victor Hugo Cuevas, who police say is the owner. Tiger that wandered in Houston neighborhood is sent to wildlife sanctuary 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z She will join scientist Marie Curie, philosopher Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo and other French luminaries. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Maison Hugo It has taken Florian Victor Hugo and his wife, Michelle, several years, but this descendant of the novelist is finally poised to welcome customers at what he calls a “brasserie moderne.” The Fall Restaurant Preview 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Menken pauses and then launches into "Hellfire," a scalding anthem of lust and revenge for Frollo the cleric in Victor Hugo's timeless classic. Composer Alan Menken explains how 'Newsies' became a stage dynamo 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In the living room, he shows you his books — he loves Victor Hugo, Jack London and Joseph Conrad, and he will embark on “Moby-Dick” in the off-season. Driving to Work With Keith Hernandez, the Real Mr. Met 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The BBC’s lavish new version of Victor Hugo’s classic weepie, adapted by corset king Andrew Davies, isn’t a musical but an epic, emotional dramatic retelling that takes the story back to its roots. The 10 best new TV dramas coming this autumn 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Since its publication in 1862, Victor Hugo’s masterpiece has been pirated, doctored, distorted, bowdlerized and flat-out betrayed by publishers, translators, filmmakers and musical impresarios from around the globe. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Romo, the head of the Jalisco state civil defense office, said several homes around the landfall area had their roofs blown off. Lidia dissipates after killing 1, injuring 2 near Mexico resort, Atlantic sees Tropical Storm Sean 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z “They are the Games of the country,” said Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, citing French author Victor Hugo and his theme of universality. The Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris Games will be carried for 68 days before the cauldron is lit 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire. Heavy Cannabis Use Linked to Schizophrenia Especially among Young Men 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “There will inevitably be an end. Emily is not Victor Hugo. She will not be inducted into the Pantheon,” Jamin said. Emily in Paris: Parisians face influx of Netflix hero’s fans 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z "We are going to rise up to our faith," said Victor Hugo, at a church in Santa Cruz, a region where Christian iconography is prominent from the streets to offices of local civic groups. Bolivia's farm hub battles political capital over cattle and grains 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z A restoration that darkened the face of a bronze statue of Victor Hugo near his birthplace in Besançon, France, has spurred a racist backlash. Your Monday Briefing: The Impact of a U.S. Chip-Making Boom 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “We’ve gone from Victor Hugo to Morgan Freeman,” wrote one commentator. Victor Hugo Statue Takes a Prominent Place in France’s Debate on Race 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z He studied English and read Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and other European writers in translation. China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z In a more than 30-minute speech, he referenced everything from Victor Hugo to the Rwandan genocide. Mali prime minister lashes out at France, UN, regional bloc 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Maiga spoke for more than 30 minutes on a Saturday morning in a speech that referenced everything from Victor Hugo to the Rwandan genocide. Mali prime minister lashes out at France, UN, regional bloc 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He evokes the idealism of the popular uprisings that swept Europe in the 19th century and inspired Victor Hugo’s classic novel, “Les Miserables.” Opinion | Watching Russia’s military failures is exhilarating. But a cornered Putin is dangerous. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z She agreed that the restoration was flawed, saying that the statue “looks like a Black Victor Hugo, which was never Ousmane’s intention.” Victor Hugo Statue Takes a Prominent Place in France’s Debate on Race 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z “The shelters are more restrictive,” said Victor Hugo Lopez, a Mexican official who helps oversee the program. ‘Remain in Mexico’ is back under Biden, with little resemblance to the Trump version 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Quoting Victor Hugo, he declared, “Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come …” How Democrats managed to beat the filibuster — 58 years ago 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Under its august dome lie the remains of Voltaire, Rousseau and Victor Hugo, among many other French cultural lions of one sort of another. Exploring Samuel Beckett’s Paris 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Gay rights activist Victor Hugo Robles said the appointment of an openly gay or trans minister would be a major statement. 'Everything to me': Chile's LGBTQ community relieved after Boric election win 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “This political storm was the opposite of the Victor Hugo we show here,” said Lise Lézennec, the cultural and scientific manager at the museum. Victor Hugo Statue Takes a Prominent Place in France’s Debate on Race 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Independent bookshops are held with special affection in France, the land of Victor Hugo and Simone de Beauvoir. Exclusive-Amazon offered France deal to have bill protecting bookshops pulled 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Baker was joining other French luminaries honored at the site, including philosopher Voltaire, scientist Marie Curie and writer Victor Hugo. Photos: Dramatic evening images frame Josephine Baker becoming the first Black woman to be inducted into France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Baker's empty coffin will lie alongside other French national icons in the mausoleum such as authors Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the philosopher Voltaire and politician Simone Veil. Jazz singer Josephine Baker first Black woman honoured at France's Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Once inside the Pantheon, Baker's empty coffin will lie alongside French national icons such as authors Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the philosopher Voltaire and politician Simone Veil. Jazz singer Josephine Baker to be inducted into France's Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “He could make Victor Hugo completely nude. But a Senegalese sculptor, who made Victor Hugo look human, they think it’s not a sculpture.” Victor Hugo Statue Takes a Prominent Place in France’s Debate on Race 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Baker will be just the sixth woman, first woman of color and first American-born person to join the likes of Marie Curie, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and Voltaire. How an American in Paris was given the rarest of French honors 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z He said goodbye to his pregnant wife and deployed to Jordan with Ghost Company in April, his green seabag filled with 40 books, including Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” Witnesses to the End 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z In 1885, on the occasion of the funeral of beloved poet and author Victor Hugo, a large black shroud was hung from the monument. Wrapped Arc de Triomphe is Christo’s fleeting gift to Paris 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Panthéon is a burial place for celebrated French icons such as scientist Marie Curie and writer Victor Hugo. Joséphine Baker to be first black woman to enter France's Panthéon 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The Panthéon houses the remains of some of France’s most revered, including Victor Hugo, Marie Curie and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z The most referenced form was Victor Hugo Green’s Green Book, a guide for Black travelers that was published annually from 1936 to 1966. The Travel Industry’s Reckoning With Race and Inclusion 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z “No amount of ‘common sense’ gun control laws will prevent criminals from misusing guns,” he wrote, comparing California’s efforts to Victor Hugo’s Inspector Javert relentlessly searching for Jean Valjean. Opinion | No, Judge Benitez, we do not need weapons of war for ‘home defense’ 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z At the time, it was nearly shot by an off-duty deputy before being whisked away in a car by Victor Hugo Cuevas, who police allege is the owner. Police: Missing Texas tiger has been found safe, healthy 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z He turned out to be Victor Hugo Cuevas, who was out on bond in connection with a 2017 murder case, adding another layer to the mystery when he denied ownership of the tiger. Houston tiger found safe after terrorizing neighborhood 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z An attorney for Victor Hugo Cuevas continued to insist to reporters on Wednesday that his client is not the tiger's owner and, like authorities, is worried about the animal's safety. Houston tiger roaming neighborhood evokes memories of 400-pound tiger found living in Harlem apartment 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z An attorney for Victor Hugo Cuevas continued to insist to reporters on Wednesday that his client is not the tiger’s owner and like authorities is worried about the animal’s safety. Texas Tiger still on the lam as alleged owner freed on bond 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The tiger appeared to live in a West Houston home rented by Victor Hugo Cuevas. A tiger roamed a residential street in Houston. It belongs to a man facing murder charges, police say. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z That man, identified as 26-year-old Victor Hugo Cuevas, was later taken into custody at his parents’ home in Richmond and reportedly charged with evading arrest. Tiger let loose in Houston neighborhood remains at large: reports 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, now faces a separate charge of evading arrest, police said. Houston suspect arrested as pet tiger remains on the loose 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z “There were translations of all the Western classics, and I read Russian literature, so I became familiar with Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Tolstoy, Dumas and Victor Hugo.” Vartan Gregorian, Savior of the New York Public Library, Dies at 87 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Morales, Argentina’s most popular soccer broadcaster, said Maradona will ultimately be remembered for a thrilling style of play that has never been duplicated. Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z At the time, the French Revolution did away with the cathedral’s statues of kings, the edifice was growing fragile and “Victor Hugo himself was upset by the state of this historical heritage.” Crypt reopens, honors 2 figures key to Notre Dame Cathedral 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Holm — who later went by his middle name, which was his mother’s maiden name — was drawn to acting at age 7 when he saw a stage production of Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Misérables.” Ian Holm, actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Middle-earth, dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In the famous Victor Hugo food market during normal times you would find evidence of both. France's boom city shaken by pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z As Victor Hugo would put it in “Les Misérables,” fiction had power over fact, scripted myth over reality: “A great man had to disappear in order that a great century be born.” Commentary: Napoleon has it all over Trump when it comes to spinning plague propaganda 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Lopez-Diaz and conspirators cashed about $185 million in payroll checks at check-cashing businesses and paid workers in cash, while filing false corporation, payroll and individual tax returns, Assistant U.S. Man charged with participating in $65M tax evasion scheme 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Lhéritier brought along figures that he considered proof that manuscripts by Baudelaire appreciated at 15 percent a year, Victor Hugo at 12 percent and so on. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The film takes its title from the Victor Hugo novel but it's set in the modern social housing estate of les Bosquets in eastern Paris. Oscars 2020: International film nominees rundown 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The second radical transformation dates, in part, to 1831, when Victor Hugo published the novel known in English as “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Perspective | The battle for Notre Dame: As the cathedral rises from the ashes, a tug-of-war is waged over its transformation 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Victor Hugo would watch this film and weep. Paris on the Brink in “Les Misérables” 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z This “Les Misérables” is not based on the Victor Hugo novel, but on a real incident of police brutality in France. Ladj Ly's (not Victor Hugo's) 'Les Misérables' looks into police brutality in France 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z His haul included a copy of “Madame Bovary” dedicated by Flaubert to Victor Hugo. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Officials said the killing was contracted by Victor Hugo Gomez, described as an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. Baseball star Ortiz makes first appearance since being shot 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Hence the film’s title, which is a nod to Victor Hugo, who wrote his famous novel of the same name in the foreboding suburb where the film is set, Montfermeil. A Movie Torn From the Pages of His Life 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Les Misérables” is not merely named after Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel, it shares its setting and succeeds splendidly in a mutual goal. Review: ‘Les Misérables’ is compelling and terrifyingly real 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The country’s hydrocarbons minister, Victor Hugo Zamora, said on Tuesday he was looking to unlock fuel deliveries for La Paz and called on the pro-Morales movements to join talks and allow economic activity to resume. 'We're desperate to buy anything': Bolivians go hungry as protests snarl cities 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z His mother loved the novels of Victor Hugo and taught Zahedi that being an artist was something to aspire to; she is not a fan of her son’s work. A Filmmaker Bared His Soul. It Ruined His Life. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The renowned French writer Victor Hugo called perseverance “the secret of all triumphs.” Julieta Granada, a star at 19 and off the LPGA at 32, plays her way back via the Symetra Tour - Golf Digest 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In their apartment on the fashionable Rue de Seine, his father, who thought Jacques was lazy at school, would force him to listen to readings from Marcel Pagnol, Charles Baudelaire and Victor Hugo. Jacques Chirac, Who Led France Envisioning European Unity, Is Dead at 86 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Avenue Victor Hugo opened in 1975, following McCaffrey’s ventures selling books from a pushcart and working as a desk clerk at a city hotel. Legendary Boston bookstore reopens in Lee barn 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Disney’s musical version of the Victor Hugo classic centers on a disfigured man who rings the bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in 15th-century Paris. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Its walls are painted with nymphs and garlands in the style of Louis XVI remembering a Roman villa, and tables bear small plaques naming former patrons: Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre. The rise and fall of French cuisine 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Writers Émile Zola, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, and scientist Marie Curie, are among those buried in the building. 'Black vest' protesters storm Paris monument 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Gomez was detained in the Dominican Republic, police said Friday. Mastermind behind shooting which left David Ortiz wounded arrested, officials say 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Police are still looking for the suspected mastermind of the shooting: Victor Hugo Gómez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who is wanted on federal drug charges in Texas. Plot that wounded Ortiz unraveled because of many mistakes 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Police are still looking for the suspected mastermind of the shooting: Victor Hugo Gómez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who is wanted on federal drug charges in Texas. Plot that wounded Ortiz unraveled because of many mistakes 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Dominican Republic’s attorney general and national police director said Wednesday that the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gómez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. David Ortiz shooting suspect charged with drug possession 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Dominican Republic’s attorney general and national police director told reporters that the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gomez, an associate of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. David Ortiz shooting was case of mistaken identity, attorney general says 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The Dominican Republic's attorney general and national police director told reporters that the attempted murder was ordered from the United States by Victor Hugo Gomez, an associate of Mexico's Gulf Cartel. Dominican AG: Ortiz shooting result of mistaken identity 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z James Wagner, a reporter for The New York Times, tweeted: “Authorities said the alleged target was wanted by Victor Hugo Gomez because he thought he'd talked and gotten him imprisoned.” Shooting of David Ortiz was result of mistaken identity, Dominican Republic lead prosecutor says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Rodriguez said the shooting was orchestrated by a man named Victor Hugo Gomez, whom he described as a member or associate of the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's major drug-trafficking organizations. David Ortiz shooting a result of mistaken identity, authorities say 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Do say: “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise” – Victor Hugo. Gay Hell: the Michigan town renamed to troll Donald Trump 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z An exception was made for old authors like Émile Zola and Victor Hugo because we knew they were on our side and fought for us. Édouard Louis: ‘We didn’t reject literature – it rejected us’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z After attending a play performed by inmates based on a novel by Victor Hugo, he struck up a conversation with the prisoners. Peru inmates exchange life of crime for sewing designs 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Rodríguez said the shooting was orchestrated by a man named Victor Hugo Gomez, whom he described as a member or associate of the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico’s major drug-trafficking organizations. Shooting of David Ortiz was result of mistaken identity, Dominican Republic lead prosecutor says 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Heitz said the man was seen pushing his bike along the pedestrian-only Victor Hugo Street, then leaving the paper bag on a concrete block in the middle of the street near a bakery. French police hunt man who planted explosive device in Lyon, release surveillance photos 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Set in the same outskirts of Paris neighborhood as the celebrated Victor Hugo novel, it follows an anticrime squad patrolling an area always about to explode. Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ and Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ make history at Cannes Film Festival 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z The man was seen arriving on foot, pushing his bike along the pedestrian-only Victor Hugo street, then leaving a paper bag on a concrete block in the middle of the street near a bakery. French police hunt bomber who planted device in Lyon 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z “Paris has another Paris under herself,” Victor Hugo wrote, in “Les Misérables,” of the sewer system, “which has its streets, its intersections, its squares, its dead ends, its arteries and its circulation.” The Invisible City Beneath Paris 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The game was at the 47th minute when referee Victor Hugo Hurtado toppled backward and fell off the field. Soccer referee dies after collapsing at match in Bolivia 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z “Les Misérables,” the musical based on the Victor Hugo novel about an ex-convict and others caught up in revolution in early 19th century France, returns to Southern California in a new national tour. Weekend Picks: ‘Les Miz,’ Jacob Jonas and two Mother’s Day events 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo knew what he was doing when he featured her in his famous novel, as human as Quasimodo the hunchback or Esmeralda the martyr. France is a divided nation – but Notre Dame has brought us together | Marion Van Renterghem 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo once described the cathedral as a “vast symphony in stone.” Notre Dame fire has a San Francisco sister cathedral reflecting on its own vulnerability 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Last year, actor Tom Hollander’s production company enlisted screenwriter Andrew Davies to develop an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Based on the French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, this Disney animated feature is responsible for introducing a generation of people to Notre Dame by way of Quasimodo’s story of acceptance for all. Notre Dame Cathedral's 7 most iconic moments in film 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z As Victor Hugo wrote in “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” a novel inspired by this very cathedral: “Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.” The fall of Notre Dame is a body blow to Paris and all it represents 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z To Victor Hugo, the Paris skyline was once “more jagged than a shark’s jaw, upon the copper-colored sky of evening.” On the Roof of Notre-Dame, Before It Burned 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The cathedral was immortalised in popular culture by Victor Hugo in his Gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, later turned into a Disney film. Our Lady of Paris: a history of Notre Dame Cathedral 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z All great cathedrals are spectacular and dramatic, but the specific theatricality of Notre Dame is bound up in the mythology of Victor Hugo’s great novel. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z He was named after two radicals: the radical French writer, Eugene Sue and another radical French writer, Victor Hugo. The face of American socialism before Bernie Sanders? Eugene Debs | Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The international hit based on the Victor Hugo novel returns with its tale of an ex-convict fighting for redemption and others caught up in revolution in early 19th-century France. Broadway national tours: 'Chocolate Factory,' 'Fiddler' and ‘Rent’ are coming in spring 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The guidebook was first published in 1936 by Victor Hugo Green, a postal carrier in the Harlem section of New York. Green Book helped black travelers navigate racist terrain 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A Victor Hugo novel is set to be made into a new movie filmed on the Channel Islands. Hugo island novel to be made into film 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In the 1869 novel The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo wrote: “Generations are puffs of breath, that pass away. Man respires, aspires, and expires.” Proper Breathing Brings Better Health 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z By Victor Hugo’s beard, I will rise above my trash French and become the kind of person who says lacustre. 'Victor Hugo becomes a sex god in my mind' – how to get better at French 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z “We think the government is making a lot of propaganda around the reform,” said Guillaume Seve, one of 20 teachers who occupied Victor Hugo high school Thursday night in protest. Angry students, confused parents protesting Macron's efforts to reinvent France's treasured high schools 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Separately, award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies - the subject of a documentary also shown over the Christmas period - has adapted Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables for the small screen. Mrs Brown and Luther set for BBC Christmas 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z I think that Victor Hugo paints beautiful pictures with words. Hugo island novel to be made into film 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z A writer in Marianne magazine quoted Victor Hugo: “The freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom of thought.” Opinion | The Woman Who Still Finds Louis C.K. Lovable 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z In response, a postal employee named Victor Hugo Green created a guide designed to “give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trips more enjoyable.” Review | ‘Green Book’ is the rare Hollywood crowd-pleaser that triumphs on all counts 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Guests gathered for cocktails on the museum’s upper balconies and ventured inside to see the museum’s newest exhibitions, “Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions, 1965-2016” and “Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo.” Tom Ford, Armie Hammer and Zoe Saldana attend the Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Mata, a lawyer with the Citizen’s Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion, which works to free the women, said he thinks bias plays into judges’ decisions to condemn these women. Women serving decades-long prison terms for abortion in El Salvador hope change is coming 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo Mata, a lawyer with the Citizens’ Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion, which works to free the women, said he thinks bias plays into judges’ decisions to condemn these women. Women serving decades-long prison terms for abortion in El Salvador hope change is coming 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo Works on paper by the famed 19th-century French novelist. The week ahead at SoCal museums, Sept. 23-30: Ai Weiwei, Victor Hugo and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The Hunchback of Notre Dame Stage adaptation of the animated Disney musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Aug. 19-26: 'The Glass Menagerie,' 'Ain't Too Proud' and more 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo, the greatest hero of the French left, had chosen honorable exile in Britain, as did so many refugees from the Commune and the Franco-Prussian War. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “It’s important, many Colombians tried it, but I believe we needed somebody to get rid of the curse that Victor Hugo left us,” Gaviria said. Gaviria rekindles Colombian glory at Tour de France debut 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Honoured with a station name are war heroes, statesmen, artists and writers including Charles de Gaulle, Markos Botsaris, Franklin D Roosevelt and Victor Hugo. Next stop, Nina Simone … Paris metro ‘must honour its heroines’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z In 1870, Victor Hugo planted a tree outside his home in exile on the island of Guernsey. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Rodin, meanwhile, behaves like an underappreciated outsider, even as he lines up gigs memorializing storied figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. The biopic 'Rodin' about the famous French sculptor lacks shape and drama 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The show is “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” adapted from the classic Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney feature. 5th Avenue Theatre’s ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ retells the Hugo (and Disney) classic in 2 languages 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The Hunchback of Notre Dame 5-Star Theatricals presents the stage adaptation of the Disney animated musical based on Victor Hugo's classic tale. The week ahead in L.A. theater, April 15-22: 'Native Son,' Laurie Anderson and more He buried himself in novels by Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, dreaming of a life filled with adventure. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It ran through the societies of ancient Greece and Rome, and became widely known through Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - and later in the animated Disney movie of the same name. Lessons from the past as immigrants take church sanctuary 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z As Victor Hugo put it: “How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind will not listen.” Winter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “Johnny is the Victor Hugo of tunes; if he dies, France stops,” his equally cheesy entertainer friend Carlos once said. Johnny Hallyday, French rock star, dies aged 74 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z It’s “a sad day for democracy,” said former Vice President Victor Hugo Cardenas. Bolivia’s top court gives president green light to run again 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Sadly, the less educated are not likely to consider Victor Hugo’s account in Les Misérables of the broken dreams, the pain and death experienced by Fantine after the “days of endless wonder” abruptly end. FAMILY: Cheap sex revolution, marriage 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Police investigator Victor Hugo Rodrigues Alves said the Batistas knew that the plea bargains would affect stock prices and cause the Brazilian real to weaken against the U.S. dollar and used that to their advantage. World Digest: Sept. 13, 2017 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The city is full of museums dedicated to writers, from Honoré de Balzac to Victor Hugo. The cult of Babel: Odessa's literary flashmobs attract book-loving tourists 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Schoolchildren in France study a famous caricature that he drew featuring the great figures of French letters, such as Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo, marching in a procession. See Pictures by the First Great Portrait Photographer 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z They include Voltaire, the philosopher and author; Victor Hugo, the writer; and Jean Moulin, a leader of the French Resistance to the Nazis during World War II. Simone Veil to Be Laid to Rest in Panthéon, Among France’s Revered 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Writers Emile Zola, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, and scientist Marie Curie, are among others buried in the grand neoclassical building. France's Simone Veil honoured with Pantheon burial - BBC News 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Among the other luminaries buried in the secular mausoleum are writers Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Émile Zola. French rights champion Simone Veil given coveted place in Panthéon 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo is the subject of the latest Google Doodle, which went up on Friday to mark 155 years since the final chapter of his epic novel Les Misérables was published. Google Doodle Celebrate Iconic French Writer Victor Hugo 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z A coach left the Victor Hugo sports hall on Wednesday lunchtime, taking around 70 people to accommodation centres in northern France. Riot police stop refugees returning to Dunkirk camp destroyed by fire 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “As Victor Hugo once proclaimed, we have not yet done with being French” Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron face off for the soul of France 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Toward the end of the book’s introduction, he quotes from the poem “Be Like the Bird,” by Victor Hugo: Postscript: Craig Sager, 1951-2016 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But in 1936, postal worker Victor Hugo Green produced The Green Book Guide - a travel guide which listed everything from petrol stations and lodgings to doctors, churches and department stores that would serve black customers. How this Green book helped black travellers in the US - BBC News 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The French novelist Victor Hugo said there are two things about a historic building: its use and its beauty. Will Venice be loved to death? - BBC News 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “They are getting about 12 to 18 grams a day in the official mining corridor,” said Victor Hugo Macedo, who oversees the reserve. Peru Scrambles to Drive Out Illegal Gold Mining and Save Precious Land 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z When he was a kid, his father opened a contemporary furniture shop on Avenue Victor Hugo. How Gallerist Suzanne Demisch Unearths Forgotten French Design 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z After their first meeting, in Rome in 2014, she said that the pope, who is also Argentine, assured her of his prayers for Victor Hugo Saldano. Pope meets with Argentine mother of man on Texas death row 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Also on show is a human skull inscribed with poetry given by French writer Victor Hugo to actress Sarah Bernhardt, which she used when playing Hamlet in 1899. On 400th anniversary, new exhibit looks at key Shakespeare acts 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo said that puns were the white substance that the seagull leaves behind on a rock, which shows you what Victor Hugo knew about anything. Yes, I love puns. Stop saying it’s a disease. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z "But the point is there is no set value for a Victor Hugo letter. It depends on far too many variables. "Anyway real collectors aren't that interested in the pecuniary value of a document. Were investors conned into buying rare manuscripts? - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But must we burn down Sartre or Louis XIV or Victor Hugo over a big thing they got wrong? A Point of View: Will future generations condemn us? - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Her boss, the local city councilman, Victor Hugo Lobo, was inspecting the various staffers posted along the avenue. Mariachis and 'Cielito Lindo' greet Pope Francis in Mexico City 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Scan the roster of history’s intellectual and artistic giants, and you quickly notice something remarkable: Many were immigrants or refugees, from Victor Hugo, W.H. The Secret of Immigrant Genius 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z It was Victor Hugo who wrote, in part, "An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted." California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z At the central square, Place Victor Hugo, a banner hung after the attacks Friday proclaimed that the best way to confront “barbarity” was for France to face the threat directly “together.” French raid foils attack, fate of key suspect unclear 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Volumes IV and V included a chronology of Manhattan history, compiled chiefly by Victor Hugo Paltsits, New York’s state historian. A History of New York Has Its Own Compelling Past 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” said French author Victor Hugo. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Gutierrez is an avid read of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Mario Vargas Llosa. 'Trashy' books: garbage collector rescues reading material for Colombian children 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Calais, which features in the writing of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo, is a natural travel hub that evokes France's love-hate relationship with England. Calais, a city everyone wants to leave, says it is victim of migrant influx, seeks damages 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Calais, which features in the writing of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo, is a natural travel hub that evokes France’s love-hate relationship with England. Calais, hit by migrant woes, a city everyone wants to leave 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Maradona's desire to run for FIFA's top job was reported by Victor Hugo Morales, a journalist close to the retired great. Maradona's road to FIFA presidency filled with obstacles 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “As Victor Hugo said, all great men have their failing.” Thione Ballago Seck’s Arrest at Odds With Religious Image in Senegal 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There are thousands of accounts of the most famous and decisive battle of the 19th century – including those by Victor Hugo and Thackeray. Europe has much to learn from the Battle of Waterloo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z They were "flowers that fly and all but sing" to the American poet Robert Frost, but took on a more tragic hue for Victor Hugo. Do butterflies hold the answer to life's mysteries? - BBC News 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Stalin’s francophilia extended to obsessively reading the novels of Victor Hugo. From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers gone? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z The writer Victor Hugo was the first person so honored, in 1885. Figures of French Resistance inducted into Paris Pantheon 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z There are now 74 men interred at the mausoleum, the first being the writer Victor Hugo. French Resistance heroes inducted into Pantheon in Paris - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo arguably sums up the pinnacle of its Belle Epoque guests. The Beau Rivage Palace: Swiss Hotel Hosted Victor Hugo, Coco Chanel, and Negotiations with Iran 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z What if Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame were still under copyright when Disney made its movie? Why Isn’t Batman in the Public Domain? 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z "We call ourselves civilised and them barbarians," wrote the outraged author, Victor Hugo, about the destruction of the Summer Palace. The palace of shame that makes China angry 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The new installation will spotlight his work in portraiture, including busts of author Victor Hugo, composer Gustav Mahler and newspaper mogul Joseph Pulitzer. Rodin Museum in Philly closing to create new installation 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The uprising that Victor Hugo so vividly commemorated and romanticized in “Les Misérables” was in fact a small affair, overshadowed by other eruptions that shook the City of Light during the 19th century. Book review: ‘Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune,” by John Merriman 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Writers like Victor Hugo and artists like Jean-Francois Millet began portraying working people in their art, instead of images of courtly life. 'The Newsroom,' The New Republic and the New Tech Media Owner 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In a 1967 speech, responding to commentators who faulted rioters for “not knowing how to behave,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted French novelist Victor Hugo: Guest: The consequences of past and present racial oppression in Ferguson and elsewhere 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z The Victor Hugo Suite is the most luxurious of the group — the author lived at Place des Vosges, where his house is now a museum. A Romantic, Secluded Courtyard Hotel On Paris' Historic Place Des Vosges 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z French writer Victor Hugo apparently used to take off all his clothes and have them hidden by his valet so that he couldn't leave the house. The much-delayed war on procrastination 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, Victor Hugo’s funeral drew millions of people to the streets of Paris, and we all remember Diana’s funeral. When death goes viral: mourning celebrities on social media 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The procedure, which was overseen by Dr. Mora and Dr. Victor Hugo Monge Monge, a vascular surgeon, left the businessman with impaired kidney function and grotesque abdominal swelling, according to emails among physicians. Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo supposedly said, “He who opens a school door closes a prison.” Time and punishment 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "Victor Hugo if I run into you on the street you're a dead man." Victor Hugo attacked by French students 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z France banned the guillotine only in 1981, under a new Socialist government, a century and a half after Victor Hugo inveighed against “those state crimes that go by the name of legal executions.” In Europe and U.S., Divergent Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “The court placed the life of the anencephalic baby over Beatriz’s life,” said Victor Hugo Mata, one of her lawyers, speaking by phone from the Supreme Court. Salvadoran Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman 2013-05-30T01:15:16Z Quoting Victor Hugo – "those who live on, fight on" – Prudhomme added that in his view the only response to the report is a sharpened focus on anti-doping. 'Tour titles shouldn't go elsewhere' 2012-10-12T14:49:19Z Richard Stengel kicks off the night’s discussion about democracy with a quote often attributed to French philosopher Victor Hugo: “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” American Democracy and Some of Its Unique Discontents 2012-10-09T11:11:12Z "A respectful thought to Victor Hugo who, on this day of French bac, shines a light on the vulgarity and stupidity of our time," writes a councillor from a town in northern France. Victor Hugo attacked by French students 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Guernsey has attracted more than its fair share of artists and writers, of course, including Victor Hugo and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and more than 100 novels have been set here. Olympic torch route, day 58: people of the sea gear up for another carnival 2012-07-15T05:00:01Z I am such an admirer of Victor Hugo because he understood that true revolution begins within yourself. French spirit inspired me, Aung San Suu Kyi says 2012-06-26T19:06:47Z Schumann and Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt, Wagner—in a class by himself—are a few that may be cited; not to mention Victor Hugo, Delacroix, Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Stendhal. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z There is in one of the recently published letters to Victor Hugo a noteworthy illustration of this steadfastness. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z "Who do you think you are to insult Victor Hugo? Just because you are illiterate doesn't mean you should pick on his writings." Victor Hugo attacked by French students 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The empress during her pregnancy had read Victor Hugo's 'Napoleon the Little,' and had been much struck with the chapter in which the coup d'�tat is so well related. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Victor Hugo’s “devil-fish” did not attack a single sailor, nor did, indeed, any formidable cuttle-fish take even a passing peep at the Challenger, much less attempt to stop its progress. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z There are stories of songs inspired by love while he lived in Paris; and he certainly did write six settings of French songs, chiefly by Victor Hugo. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z I trust it is not prejudice, but after a while the vociferous and endless praise of Victor Hugo in his essays had a curious effect upon me. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Victor Hugo has been trending on Twitter in France as students lash out angrily after the Year 12 Baccalaureate exam - and are in turn condemned by others for their disrespectful attitude, notes Olivia Sorrel-Dejerine. Victor Hugo attacked by French students 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Nothing he has written will compare in artistic strength of satire or invective with Victor Hugo's "Châtimens" or "Napoléon le Petit." Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z You astonish me very much, for in 1843, Victor Hugo returned from Spain on account of your death, while in 1849 he was a representative of the people in Paris. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Victor Hugo has taken the same part, and Eugene Sue. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Personal and critical causes carried him out of the camp of Victor Hugo into the ranks of the Saint-Simonians, whom he followed for a while with a kind of half-detached enthusiasm. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z "Now I hate Victor Hugo, Aragon and Roy. No in fact I hate poetry. No, no, in fact I hate the bac, period." Victor Hugo attacked by French students 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In a sublime world, Victor Hugo's appeals would cease to be ridiculous; but the nobler the world, the more ignoble would seem the doctrines and the policy of Thiers. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z But, as it stands, it is difficult to admit the same phenomenon in the case of Victor Hugo, whose curious séances you have just described to the public. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Two of them, Victor Hugo and Sebastian, still work in the steel industry. Sergio Martinez: From Frequent Robbery Victim to Boxing Champion 2012-03-16T17:55:48Z Henceforth the influence of Mazzini and Victor Hugo was to dominate him like an obsession. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Hailed as chief of the realists, the author of Madame Bovary took an ironic delight in publishing Salammbô, which was romantic enough to please that prince of romanticists, Victor Hugo. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Victor Hugo puts the case in poetic fashion when he declares that Voltaire was irony incarnate for the salvation of mankind. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Compare the communications noted down in the house of Victor Hugo in Jersey, those of the Phalansterian Society of Eugéne Nus, those of astronomical meetings, those of religious believers,—Catholics, Protestants, etc. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z I wish much that some one would collect and publish in a separate volume all M. Victor Hugo's prefaces; I would purchase it instantly, and it would be a fund of almost inexhaustible amusement. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z From these influences he passed to the cénacle of Victor Hugo, and became one of the champions of the new romantic school. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z In 1872 Victor Hugo published in imperishable verse his record of the year which followed the collapse of the empire, L’Ann�e terrible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Thinking on Garibaldi or Victor Hugo, the mind instinctively lodges on Caprera or Guernsey. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Could you give us a proof of identity to show us that you are really the daughter of Victor Hugo, the wife of Charles Vacquerie? Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z The romance of "Notre Dame de Paris" is ever cited as Victor Hugo's best work, excepting some early lyrical pieces of which we know nothing. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z In the house of Victor Hugo seeing he had to let the veteran sleep out his nap whilst others among the guests slumbered also, he made up his mind to astonish them. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z To Maeterlinck, with reference to The Intruder, has been applied what Victor Hugo said to Baudelaire after he had read The Flowers of Evil: "You have created a new shudder." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z On the other hand, Victor Hugo wrote his "Cromwell" in three months, and his "Notre Dame de Paris" in four months and a half. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z I was just then full of Victor Hugo, but Monsieur Alfredo considered him much too sentimental. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z The wild vigour of some of his descriptions is acknowledged; but that is all of praise that I ever heard bestowed upon Victor Hugo's theatrical productions in his native land. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z "Now they are dead," as Victor Hugo says—"they are dead, but the flowers last always." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The inspiration of the orator of the evening seems to be that of the great Victor Hugo, who uttered the august saying, 'There shall be no slavery of the mind.' The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Victor Hugo seated himself alone upon a sofa, and talked to no one. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z I have heard Gambetta deliver an oration, Victor Hugo read a speech, the grandson of Goethe talk of den Grossvater in the great poet's house at Weimar. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Did she not read Victor Hugo, and play "Lucrezia Borgia," and spread her own refinement over the village tavern? The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z In the year ’44, Victor Hugo, attended by a score of minor poets, daily appeared on his balcony to acknowledge the homage of the public; Lamartine was dividing his attention between politics and literature. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z When I was in Paris, about a year ago, I visited the tomb of Victor Hugo. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z As much pity for the outcast has been shown by his great rival, Victor Hugo, and even more fellow-feeling with the oppressed. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Taine once spoke of the "violent sorcery" of Victor Hugo's style, and it is a phrase that comes often to the mind in thinking of the music of the titanic German. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z When Dumas or Victor Hugo publishes a novel, the sale of the right to perform it as a play yields him from eighty thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand francs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z In the house of Victor Hugo, seeing he must wait to let the veteran sleep out his nap whilst others among the guests slumbered also, he made up his mind to astonish them. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z And now, after a short interval of Victor Hugo at Keble, I fancy you will start for the Midlothian campaign. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Even Victor Hugo admitted that the experiment had failed. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z “Our chimeras,” says Victor Hugo, “are the things which most resemble ourselves, and each man dreams of the unknown, and the impossible according to his nature.” Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Our prison system is not ideal by any means, but it is far less cruel than it was half a century ago, and we owe this in part to Victor Hugo. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z It needs a Victor Hugo to celebrate it. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The architecture of the novel and the staccato paragraphs infallibly remind one of Victor Hugo, whom, however, Mr. Ollivant does not know. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The capture of Paris, late in May, was accompanied with pitiless slaughter of the rebels, though many lives were saved by Victor Hugo. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Yet there was nothing of that hypocrisy which Victor Hugo calls supreme cynicism about him. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Only one other figure was in sight, that of Monsieur Jules Vicot, with his head bent, and his hands in his pockets, turning, at a snail's pace, into the Avenue Victor Hugo. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z It declares itself incompetent to pronounce sentence upon a "storm inside a skull," to quote Victor Hugo. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z One might call Mutanabbí the Victor Hugo of the East, for he has the grand style whether he soars to sublimity or sinks to fustian. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Military usurpation at Madrid, January 3d; death of Sumner, March 11th; citizens of District of Columbia disfranchised, June 17th; Alphonso XII. king of Spain, December 30th; Mrs. Besant begins to lecture; Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three published. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Curiosity is not necessarily gluttony, or “scepticism, that curse of the intellect,” as Victor Hugo calls it. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Victor Hugo was resumed after this and the translation finished without further incident. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z The waters of what Victor Hugo called "The First of the Fourth" lave the links at Quiverfield. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z It has been the fashion to write of Victor Hugo as the poet of democratic humanity. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Some consider the 19th-century bells unrivaled witnesses to French history, made famous by Victor Hugo’s “Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” and an indestructible part of French heritage. Paris Journal: In Paris, Bells at Notre Dame Will Be Replaced 2011-10-19T01:43:24Z Victor Hugo himself composed a good deal of criticism, and in the preface to his Orientales he states the critical principles of the new school clearly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z At the end of what was once the garden is a Printer's office, in which was a large lithograph portrait of Victor Hugo. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Amongst those who knocked on more than one occasion at the doors of the French Academy in vain, was Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The contrast between the great Napoleon and the man whom Victor Hugo liked so to call "Napoleon the Little" suggested another pictorial effort of Vernier. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Victor Hugo calls locomotives "these giant draft horses of civilization." Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The novels of Victor Hugo are novels of incident, with a strong infusion of purpose, and considerable but rather ideal character drawing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Sometimes she walks to 55th Street and Ninth Avenue with her toy poodle, Victor Hugo, to watch the dancers through the windows of the building that houses the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. | Hell?s Kitchen North 2011-09-23T16:49:23Z M. Barbou states that 'the poet of the imperial era was sickly and asthmatic, and he detested Victor Hugo simply for his robustness and power.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Marise, who was reading a great deal of Victor Hugo, hardly knew whether to agree with this startling idea or not, but she felt when she was with Mlle. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Victor Hugo expresses the opposite thought: "There is one spectacle grander than the sea—that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky—that is the interior of the soul." Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z In poetry proper, as in drama, Victor Hugo showed the way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z More recently, Victor Hugo Pena made a name for himself as the mountain enforcer on Lance Armstrong’s squad. Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward glory in Europe 2011-09-18T20:30:00Z At length, in 1841, on the occasion of his fourth candidature, Victor Hugo was successful. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Each with his favorite hunting pig on a stout string, a band of the leading citizens of Montpont moved in dignified procession down the Rue Victor Hugo in the direction of the hunting preserve. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z Victor Hugo is his divinity—a divinity whom indeed, to our sense, he effectually conceals and obliterates in the suffocating fumes of his rhetoric. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Victor Hugo’s earliest poetical works, his chiefly royalist and political Odes, were cast in the older and accepted forms, but already displayed astonishing poetical qualities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z This resolution was first carried out by placing there the remains of Victor Hugo. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Victor Hugo's unequalled command of language and his terse and vigorous emphasis come here into full play. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Through the friendship of Stuart Merrill, a young American poet living in Paris, he had the supreme bliss of being presented to Victor Hugo. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Although Tennyson, in a general way, is an essentially picturesque poet, his picturesqueness is of an infinitely milder type than that of Victor Hugo; the one ends where the other begins. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z We have been thus particular here because the literary productiveness of Victor Hugo himself has been the measure and sample of the whole literary productiveness of France on the poetical side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z M. H. had known intimately Victor Hugo and Berlioz, "the Victor Hugo of music." My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z Victor Hugo was unquestionably a great orator, or rather I ought perhaps to say he exhibited the powers of a great orator on special occasions. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z I saw her in "Esmeralda," a ballet which is arranged from Victor Hugo's romance and modified for the stage. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z This makes all Mr. Swinburne's magnificent talk about Victor Hugo's great criminals and monstrosities, about Shelley's Count Cenci, and Browning's Guido Franchesini, and about dramatic figures generally, quite worthless as anything but amusing fantasy. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z It was Victor Hugo who said of this cathedral: "This odious church, which from afar holds so much of promise, and which near by has none," and Hugo undoubtedly spoke the truth. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z As a child, he had witnessed the first performance of Victor Hugo's Hernani. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z In the case of Victor Hugo we fortunately have such a description from the pen of one of his most enthusiastic admirers, Théophile Gautier. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z His admiration for Victor Hugo, which so notoriously grew cool, is supposed to have been by no means remotely connected with an admiration for Victor Hugo's wife. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z I said just now that Tennyson had brought no invention to his task; but it may be said, on the other side, that Victor Hugo has brought altogether too much. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Victor Hugo did no more than follow a trail across the mountains of his invention, content with the kingdoms of each new turning. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The Rue Victor Hugo is the main thoroughfare, traversing the whole length of the town parallel with the shore, up hill and down, crossing a small bridge, and finally losing itself in the environs. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z In 1835 the Théâtre Français applied to Victor Hugo for a new drama, and in response he gave to it his Angelo, one of his best pieces for construction and for rapid and vigorous effects. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Paris! 'tis No wonder, dear, that you go So far into the ecstasies About that Victor Hugo! City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z With Victor Hugo the horrible is always the main element of the picturesque, and the beautiful and the tender are rarely introduced save to give it relief. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z These attracted general attention, partly as the work of a stranger, partly from their own merit, and the popularity of Victor Hugo. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Victor Hugo had to manufacture a fourth act for his 'Ruy Blas,' so slightly related to his main story that it was cut out of the English adaptation acted by Fechter and Booth. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z French rulers were emphatically destined to live in the pages of Victor Hugo, but in the case of at least one sovereign it was to be by the immortality of contempt. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z If among French writers, for example, Gautier was notably nearsighted, Victor Hugo had an eye as keen as a bird's. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Victor Hugo, born 1802, a famous politician and novelist of France, was exiled by Louis Napoleon after the coup d’état. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Some of her earliest trances were under the guidance and inspiration of Victor Hugo. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z “Victor Hugo would probably have put it this way: ‘It was the fifteenth of May, 17—. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z During the debate on the new Education Bill, introduced by M. de Falloux in January, 1850, Victor Hugo adversely criticized the measure as placing too much power in the hands of the clergy. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z This piece may be compared with the Cromwell of Victor Hugo. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z His position, not the position of Pan Breslauer, but the secretary, was dreadful, so dreadful, indeed, that one would need the style of Victor Hugo to describe it. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z The old masters are dead, but "the flowers," as Victor Hugo says, "the flowers last always." Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z And he would often quote Victor Hugo's expressive lines: "Grief is a fruit God will not let grow On boughs too feeble to sustain its weight." Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z In Brussels Victor Hugo came upon friends, amongst them being the novelist, Alexandre Dumas. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Even when this author is a Victor Hugo it is bad enough! The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Victor Hugo may or may not have known the popular legend. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z "Devil-fish" of Victor Hugo, Dread Pieuvre of caves where few go But are made your palsied prey, Where are now your gruesome glories, Dwelt upon in shocking stories? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 2011-05-24T02:00:14.667Z Victor Hugo was the acknowledged Achilles of the fight. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z At table Victor Hugo relaxes entirely from his seriousness. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Here is the famous old cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris with which Victor Hugo has made the world familiar. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z All Greece, its gods and men, bowed at that word which Victor Hugo saw, or imagined that he saw, graven on a pillar of N�tre Dame: Ανάγκη. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The resistance organized by the republicans within Paris under Victor Hugo was soon subdued by the intoxicated soldiers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Victor Hugo’s egotism was so vast that it was insane if it was not sublime. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo was not the man to be thus crushed without an effort to save his drama. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z At Brussels Victor Hugo protested against the declaration of the Belgian government, which promised to deliver up the fugitives. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z For Wordsworth, worshipper of nature though he was, earth had not anything to show more fair than London from Westminster Bridge, and Victor Hugo found endless inspiration on the top of a Parisian omnibus. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z But though the opposition represented by Thiers was rather constitutional than dynastic, there was another and irreconcilable opposition, that of the amnestied or voluntarily exiled republicans, of whom Victor Hugo was the eloquent mouthpiece. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Victor Hugo’s own genius had, we suspect, some trace of a real, though noble, insanity in it. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This was the brother who had been Victor Hugo's constant companion in early life, and the news of his death deeply agitated the survivor, keenly awakening the slumbering recollections of childhood. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Two days after, in the Senate, Victor Hugo asked for the amnesty in a speech in which he drew a comparison between the defenders of the Commune and the men of the 2nd December. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z But, as I have tried already to say, the work—all the work—of Victor Hugo is in its essence artistic, in its accident alone philanthropic or moral. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Victor Hugo, in 1830, was a young man irreverently trying to overturn established tradition. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The plan sketched by Victor Hugo was perfect, far better than I have given it here; but the motive is plain, the idea of the refrain. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was a momentous time for the friends of Victor Hugo, who were naturally anxious for his safety when so many of the friends of the Republic had been seized and incarcerated. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Victor Hugo summoned the President, MacMahon, to adjourn the departure until the discussion and the certainly favourable decision of the two Chambers. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Victor Hugo's address to the Germans beats not only Banagher, but beats Garibaldi in high-flown absurdity. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Victor Hugo's old rag-picker, cataloguing the horrors she disinterred, with her plate, her pot, her basket, respected herself and her calling, and thought her disposition of scraps worthy of interested description. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z But the past tense half seems an anachronism in speaking of Victor Hugo. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Ever since 1820 Victor Hugo had been deeply moved on the question of capital punishment, and resolved to labour for its abolition. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z It has sneered at our sufferings, denied the devotion, the courage, the abnegation Paris has shown during the siege, hooted her best-loved representatives, Garibaldi and Victor Hugo. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z A combat with one of these is described in Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z In middle life he became a librarian at the Luxembourg; as old age was approaching, he found himself elected to succeed Victor Hugo at the French Academy. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Olympus in our parable was classicism in power; Victor Hugo was the genius of insurgent romanticism. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The war between the two great schools of French poetry, the classic and the romantic, passed into an acute stage shortly before the publication of Victor Hugo's Cromwell. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z He made the acquaintance of Victor Hugo, and towards the close of 1840 he travelled in the Pyrenees and Corsica. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Victor Hugo’s simple and romantic method of deciding between hostile opinions, as exemplified in his valuable drama of Lucrêce Borgia, at once occurred to me. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z He greatly venerated the genius of Victor Hugo, who was perhaps the only contemporary poet of France who exercised any influence over the style of Leconte de Lisle. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The really extraordinary independence of fact with which Victor Hugo undoubtedly made his assertions respecting himself renders any testimony that he bears on this point interesting as imagination rather than instructive as history. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo, and men of a kindred if not an equal genius, were engaged in a struggle for the very life and soul of poetry. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z He is waving a flag over your head, and on it is written the name of Victor Hugo.’ Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco 2011-03-11T03:00:13.180Z Victor Hugo's inheritance, which was ill administered by chatterers and chauvinists, by Déroulède and such poets with their big drums and their trumpet-flourishes, has been taken over in France by Verhaeren. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Far be it from me to attempt to turn these facts against the reputation of M. Victor Hugo. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z When Louis Napoleon made himself emperor, Victor Hugo denounced him. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo soon gave a pledge, though not in some respects a successful one, of the sincerity of his own convictions. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Some passages of fervid eloquence from Mirabeau, Robespierre and Victor Hugo are given. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z When Verhaeren began to write, Victor Hugo, the crowned king of French lyric poetry, was dead; Baudelaire was forgotten; Paul Verlaine was still almost unknown. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Against M. Victor Hugo as a man I have necessarily no word to utter. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Victor Hugo made this approach to the illimitable in power, that he was well-nigh equally able to do great things and to do small. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I must refer in this place to some of Victor Hugo's lyrical efforts. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Victor Hugo in his Shakespeare, when he calls the lists of poets, mentions prose writers like Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Le Sage and Cervantes. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His first poetical attempts, which he has never published, the verses he wrote at school and in his first years at the university, showed him hypnotised by the style of Lamartine and Victor Hugo. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Another feature for which Victor Hugo's book deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z Victor Hugo went a second time, having once failed, to intercede with King Louis Philippe on behalf of a political offender condemned to death. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I now come to the last of Victor Hugo's writings for the stage, and in Les Burgraves we have in some respects the best of his dramatic works. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Victor Hugo followed in a speech in opposition to a revision and to monarchy, and in favor of the Republic. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z In France it was Victor Hugo who first recognised the necessity of direct address. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of genius. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z One more little gem from Victor Hugo’s treasury of such we are happily able to present in a version whose authorship will commend it; Mr. Andrew Lang translates “The Grave and the Rose.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Abandoning all idea of the Chamber of Deputies at that time, Victor Hugo next thought of the Chamber of Peers. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z I remember a phrase of Victor Hugo which formerly seemed to me exaggerated and obscure; he said: "Night, which in a wild beast takes the place of a soul." War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Lamartine had been his model, then Victor Hugo, who bewitches young people, that lord of magnificent gestures, that undisputed master of words. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Victor Hugo very happily compared the three cities to a little old woman between two handsome, strapping daughters. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z A considerable part of Victor Hugo’s prose production, mostly fiction, has been translated into English. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The protestations of Louis Napoleon that he desired to rank as a patriot only, and not as a Bonaparte, had been accepted by Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, and others, in good faith. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Byron's is there, Victor Hugo's, Shelley's, and others of the sort. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z One can only imagine what a Victor Hugo, detached and philosophical, would have done with such a theme in a novel. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z It is not remarked that Corot had any acquaintance or friendships with Dumas or with Victor Hugo, of whom he remarked, “This Victor Hugo seems to be pretty famous in literature.” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z From “Les Miserables” in this series we make extracts which will briefly represent Victor Hugo’s prose at its very best, alike in style, in thought, and in spirit. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Never can we forget the spectacle as the carriage passed along the Rue Lafayette, Victor Hugo standing up, and being literally borne along by the teeming multitudes.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Thackeray and Dickens are the favourite novelists of the majority of the tramps that I have happened to talk with about books, but the works of Victor Hugo and Eugene Sue are also very popular. Notes of an Itinerant Policeman 2011-01-24T03:00:19.187Z For, as no one can doubt, Bouillot had about him worthy followers—this sergeant, Sainte-Brute, as much dreaded as his master, and a few other hussars, "he loved above all," as Victor Hugo says. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z This means and can only mean that he had perceived the real beauty, the real ambition of Dumas and Victor Hugo and Charlotte Brontë. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Victor Hugo the man, especially as he mellowed with old age, was a sunny, sweet, benignant nature. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The Royalists, on the other hand, seeing this bitter attack upon the Austrians, who were the most powerful friends of the Bourbons, naturally thought that Victor Hugo had abandoned the Royalist cause. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z It would have been impossible to traverse Rue Victor Hugo had the way been clear, since a hundred feet from the shore or less, they encountered a zone of unendurable heat. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The great writers—Victor Hugo, Leconte de Lisle, Theodore de Banville, and others—wrote him encouraging letters, but the public at large did not overburden the young man with its admiration. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z I do not know whether Victor Hugo ever used this antithesis; but I am certain that he would have used it and thanked his stars for it, if he had thought of it. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Victor Hugo’s personality seems to have been a literary force almost as much as was his genius. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Few descriptions could be found in literature to vie with that in which Victor Hugo places the criminal before us as he enters the court to receive his sentence on a lovely August morning. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z At last they stood, the priest between them, at the very edge of the Morne overlooking the shadowed Rue Victor Hugo—a collapsed artery of the whited sepulchre.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The immediate result was a divorce, upon which Madame Verlaine insisted with every possible emphasis and in spite of Victor Hugo's intervention. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Victor Hugo's great novel—the only complete unabridged translation. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Mr. Swinburne’s late volume on Victor Hugo may be cited in extreme example of the deific ascription rendered by many at the shrine of this idolatry. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z As we shall see, Victor Hugo traversed the whole of these and similar judgments. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Father Fontanel awoke and the Rue Victor Hugo became alive with voices, aroused by the rattling in the throat of the mountain. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Like a second Victor Hugo, he patronized the younger men with benevolent gesture. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z When a prisoner at Clairvaux, a petition for his release was signed by such geniuses as Herbert Spencer, Victor Hugo and Algernon Swinburne. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Mr. Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, lost no opportunity to flout with indignity the claims of Victor Hugo to his supreme literary godship. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Indeed, when the exile returned to Paris he sought out Victor Hugo, and in the most frank and unambiguous language said to him, 'What would it be for me to be Napoleon over again? Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Driving down through the city to the Landing she found the Rue Victor Hugo almost deserted. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Victor Hugo with his regal gesture declared the author to be “Shakespeare enfant.” Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z He knows his Shakespeare, as not one Frenchman of his class knows Corneille, Racine, Molière, or Victor Hugo. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z To Victor Hugo himself, the foregoing was not blasphemy; it was simply sublimity of a sort suitable to the character of the poet. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z On the 27th of October, 1855, the news was communicated to Victor Hugo that he must quit the island by the 2nd of November. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z His church was on the rise of the morne at the foot of Rue Victor Hugo. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Then he returns home, and exclaims, parodying Victor Hugo's celebrated lines: "How proud a man is to call himself a Frenchman when he has looked at England." English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z There is an ancient copyright agreement that Victor Hugo came up with called the Berne Convention that most western nations are parties to. What do we want copyright to do? 2010-11-23T06:45:00Z Another little gem of Victor Hugo’s is the following quatrain, which, though it may have had at first some particular occasion, is capable of the most general application. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z But Victor Hugo was very depressed at this time, and saw little prospect of the realization of his own aspirations and of those who felt and acted with him. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Early in the race, Victor Hugo Peña, a domestique for Mr. Armstrong’s United States Postal Service team, briefly moved ahead of Mr. Armstrong in the standings and wore the yellow jersey signifying the overall leader. Some Fear Armstrong Inquiry Will Taint Charity 2010-08-21T17:07:00Z He owned classics like Epictetus, the Koran and the Bible, and kept up with contemporaries like H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin and Victor Hugo. In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic 2010-04-19T01:27:00Z Victor Hugo Chavez, a lawyer from the Ministry of Labour, told the BBC. Paid to be on time - the plan to make Bolivians punctual 2010-04-06T08:59:00Z You feel the personality even more than you feel the genius in reading Victor Hugo. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This last sentence exhibits a misapprehension of Victor Hugo's method. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z "One can have a certain indifference on the death penalty," read Victor Hugo's famous words nearby, "as long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes." French guillotines on show 33 years after use 2010-03-16T19:38:00Z How can we haunt these precincts without thinking of their high priest Victor Hugo, who loved them as Scott and Burns loved their wholesomer banks and braes? Glories of Spain Victor Hugo also says that the “‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ depicts the action of the invisible world on man, but ‘The Tempest’ symbolizes the action of man on the invisible world. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Around Victor Hugo, as the towering central figure among them all, were mustered, though some of them not to remain in this comradeship with him, Sainte-Beuve, Balzac, George Sand, De Musset. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z During the final rehearsals of this piece Victor Hugo had a marvellous escape of his life. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The writers of their day were for the most part classicists; a few before Victor Hugo were romanticists. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 I may here quote what Victor Hugo, in his "Alps and Pyrenees," says of sandstone. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 After College lectures were over, he would take Venu out into the public park and tell him stories about the heroes from Greek History and Victor Hugo's romances. Stories from Tagore We shall be in yet better accord with Victor Hugo’s estimate of himself, if we take for his symbol a being mightier even than a demigod like Achilles. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo's address was enthusiastically received by the bulk of the members of the Academy, and the press generally commented upon it in flattering terms. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z "Charming writers," Victor Hugo called them; "in unison a powerful writer, two minds from which springs a single jet of talent." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 And Victor Hugo did not shrink from describing, and that with a strange and scandalous ignorance of the original incidents, the crucifixion by Louis Napoleon of the Christ of nations. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Victor Hugo would have been a failure if he had not been able always to be provided with very thick pens. Rambles in Womanland In the second, Victor Hugo contrasts the two leaders, the conqueror and the conquered, of that momentous day: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This monarch, though generally immovable on social and literary questions, and caring little for the conciliation of the democracy, was much impressed by the power he recognised in Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z To appraise Stevenson’s merits as a Romantic one has to read him after reading Scott, Dumas, Victor Hugo; or, better still, to peruse these giants after dallying with Ariel. The Vagabond in Literature I had read all Victor Hugo’s romances and a couple of Balzac’s and was in no mind to like her. Reveries over Childhood and Youth When, in full Parliament, Victor Hugo and Lamartine declared that they ceased to be Royalists, and immediately went to take their seats on the Opposition benches, their honesty and manliness deserved the applause they received. Rambles in Womanland There is Victor Hugo for you, Victor Hugo in his glory. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The sons of Victor Hugo joined their father in January, 1852, and the poet determined to remain in Brussels so long as Napoleon III. reigned at the Tuileries. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z More tolerant and passive in disposition than Victor Hugo, he had the same far-seeing vision when dealing with the people. The Vagabond in Literature “I think it was Victor Hugo who said that ‘Europe was the finest nation on the earth, France the finest country, and Normandy the finest part of France.’ Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands Victor Hugo said he submitted to one tyranny only, that of children. Her Royal Highness Woman For the glory of Victor Hugo as novelist is in climaxes of agony, lashed together and reared like an endless ladder reaching to heaven. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Victor Hugo on several occasions delivered funeral orations over departed patriots. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The result was a composition of beautiful words in diapason, producing a notable musical effect, alternating with some phrase or sentence � la Victor Hugo. Maximina “Victor Hugo,” said Master Lewis, “declares that Waterloo was not a battle: it was a change of front of the nations of the world.” Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands Victor Hugo once said that it was to look pleasant. Her Royal Highness Woman All is said that need be said in hostile criticism of Victor Hugo’s writings, when it is said that he is always to the last degree egotistic and to the last degree theatric. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z At Hauteville House, which, as its name implies, occupied a commanding elevation, Victor Hugo found a home which is now peculiarly linked with his name. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The threats of that French agitator against Germany have no more historical value than the declamation of Victor Hugo during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. A Defence of the Hessians Not far from us rose an old gentleman who might have been profitably employed in reading Victor Hugo's "Art of being a Grandfather," who danced with a pretty young girl who looked at him, mischievously. A Top-Floor Idyl Notice Victor Hugo's descriptive powers and discuss whether the book shows a knowledge of actual life or is largely theoretical. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. From entries fourteen years apart in date, we bring together, abridging them, two expressions of Amiel about Victor Hugo: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Notwithstanding his advanced political views in later life, Victor Hugo, as I have already had occasion to observe, moved forward towards a republic by gradual stages. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The first comprises his romances of the imagination, of which Os mysterios de Lisboa, in the style of Victor Hugo, is a fair example. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Scott and Dumas and Victor Hugo were his favourites. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. |
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