Victor Hugo, French novelist and dramatist and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was born on this day in 1802. We look back at a 2015 blog post on the John Rylands Library’s Special Collections Blog which describes the The Victor Hugo Papers. The Rylands collection is perhaps the richest Victor Hugo collection outside of France and Belgium, and includes more than 1,200 manuscripts and items of correspondence.

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