Existing for over a century, Victor Hugo’s home stands out today as a key cultural place in Paris. To celebrate this historical heritage, Victor Hugo’s previous home is opening its doors and invites literary fans and people from all over to come and discover the treasures and secrets that await in an exhibition with free and open access until September 3, 2023.
It is in this house that the writer lived with the rest of his family between the years of 1832 and 1848, in the private mansion located in the heart of the Marais district. In his 280 square meter apartment, Victor Hugo wrote many of his masterpieces, such as Ruy Blas, Lucrèce Borgia, Les Chants du Twilight, and a large part of Les Misérables.
The museum was created in 1903, 18 years after the author’s death, thanks to Paul Meurice, a French novelist and playwright who was a good friend to Victor Hugo. Thanks to Meurice’s contribution, that of the descendants of the Hugo family as well as that of many donors, the house of Hugo is today the vessel of the memorial that the author left on our world.
Over 230 exceptionally diverse works are to be discovered along a route that unwinds on the multiple floors of the museum. Visitors are presented with an array of history filled with drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, albums, correspondence, period manuscripts, precious furniture and books. Among the works exhibited, some bring the artistic influence of Hugo into view with his contemporaries, while others emphasize the different aspects of his life. A lovely artistic journey filled with memories and history, in the setting of the intimate home witnessing the daily life of one of the greatest French artists of the 19th century.
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