French romanticist Victor Hugo learnt about his daughter Léopoldine's death from a newspaper he read at a café in 1843. Lissy had earlier conceptualized and staged the poetic movements of many ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1843, Victor Hugo was on a sunlit walk while travelling with his mistress in the Pyrenees. He ...
The literary and political genius was one of the most famous people to have lived in Guernsey while he was exiled from his homeland. Honoured by the French Academy for a poem he wrote and wins first ...
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