LONDON French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables" but less known is his work as an illustrator , now the subject of a new exhibition in London. "Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo", which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces Hugo's passion for illustration, 140 years after his death. The exhibition's notes say that while the Romantic author and politician came to be a leading public figure in France in the 19th century,