(3 May 2014) The original 1862 manuscript of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, a French national treasure, is leaving Europe for the first time to be exhibited exclusively at the State Library of Victoria, Australia, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria announced today.
The 945 page volume will leave the Bibliothèque nationale de France to be exhibited in the world-first exhibition, Victor Hugo: Les Misérables From Page to Stage which opens 17 July 2014.
Read more about Les Mis and the exhibition.
