The BBC, Victor Hugo and the resurrection of a lover and hero for the ages
Now the great French novelist Victor Hugo is about to become a television icon with a big-budget BBC adaptation of his masterpiece "Les Miserables"
He is worshipped as a saint in thousands of Vietnamese temples, held up as a prophet of European unity and a human rights hero for his campaigning against the death penalty.
Now the great French novelist Victor Hugo is about to become a television icon with a big-budget BBC adaptation of his masterpiece "Les Miserables" and an equally lavish series retelling his hugely eventful private and political life.
A literary sensation by the time he was 30 with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Hugo quickly became the conscience of his generation.