Maison de Victor Hugo
Hugo's second-floor apartment where he wrote Les Misérables and secretly made over three thousand drawings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Maison de Victor Hugo in Paris draws on his grandson Georges's eyewitness account of watching him work, scattering ink and kneading blots into castles and stormy skies. It follows Hugo's sixteen years in this second-floor apartment from 1832 to 1848, where he wrote Ruy Blas and large stretches of Les Misérables alongside his wife Adèle and their four children. Alongside the writing, you'll hear about the thousands of drawings he made in private and rarely showed anyone. Look closely at the Gothic and Chinese motifs he designed for his own salon walls.
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