Victor Hugo's Wild Life: Scandals, Affairs & Secrets

Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, two of the biggest tearjerkers in French literature. But his own life could have filled a few scandalous novels of its own, and honestly, it almost makes his fiction look tame by comparison. Between affairs, arrests, a secret diary written in a code his own family couldn't crack, and a funeral that reportedly shut down every brothel in Paris for the day, Hugo lived like a man determined to out drama his own books. Here's the...