First picture i have seen of Victor Hugo — love the hands, tortured soul
Victor Hugo, born Feb. 26, 1802, French playwright, novelist and agitator against Napoleon and against capital punishment…
Hugo went into exile when Napoleon III took absolute power in France in 1851 and he sent nearly twenty years on the Channel Island of Guernsey, where the above photo was taken…
Hugo’s best-known works include Les Miserables and the early melodrama The Hunchback of Notre Dame - all stuff that lends itself well to adaptation to musicals and other forms of popular entertainment…
Photo: Victor Hugo in exile, Guernsey, 1853, by C Hugo/A Vacquerie
First picture i have seen of...hands, tortured soul