Victor Hugo

(Newser) - The fire at Notre Dame cathedral has led to a surge in popularity of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel centered there. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, known as as Notre-Dame de Paris in French, now sits atop the Amazon best-seller list in France, reports HuffPost . In fact, two different editions...

(Newser) - New parents Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are, it seems, big fans of Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame—such big fans, in fact, that they named their daughter after one of its characters, People reports. "We both love the Esmeralda character … and we just...

(Newser) - There really was a hunchback of Notre Dame, the newly discovered memoirs of a 19th-century sculptor have revealed. References to a hunchback stonemason in the diaries of Henry Sibson, a British sculptor who went to Paris to work on the restoration of Notre Dame around the time Victor Hugo penned...