L'homme qui rit

About “L'homme qui rit”

The Man Who Laughs is a Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. It takes place in England beginning in 1690 and extends into the early 18th-century reign of Queen Anne, depicting England's royalty and aristocracy of the time as cruel and power-hungry. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)