Pierre Boulat
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Hauteville House - La demeure de Victor Hugo à Guernesey
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Hauteville House, the three-story house acquired by Victor Hugo in Guernsey, dominates Saint-Pierre-Port. -
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In the garden of the house, the pool with the "Snake Fountain" from the Place Royale in Paris and a bench to watch the shore of France. -
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The red lounge withh its walls covered with crimson damask, pure "Ruys Blas” style, where the writer and his family received their guests. -
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In the red lounge, a fireplace surrounded by five mirrors and gilded wooden statues, from a 18th century Venetian gondola, supporting a baldachin from the Beijing Summer Palace. Victor Hugo bought most of these items from the sailors of ships anchored at Guernsey. -
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A Chinese figurine painted by Victor Hugo on the apron of a secretary, drawn from an old Breton chest in the blue salon -
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The fireplace in the dining-room: a monumental "H" in Dutch earthenware, surmounted by a statuette of the virgin in porcelain of Rouen. 7. The tapestry room, adjoining the dining-room, is also -
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The tapestry room, adjoining the dining-room, is also furnished with monumental ingenuity, drawn from disparate woodwork: columns in ex-table legs that Victor Hugo called "Cathedral de Chêne", Aubusson tapestries of the 18th century. Century. -
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The tapestry salon seen through a Venetian mirror -
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Concealed behind a woodwork of the Salon des Tapisseries, the small photo laboratory of Charles Hugo who left us the most memorable photos of the poet. -
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Victor Hugo’s bed room, called "Garibaldi". Decorated with a delirious mixture of Spanish and Italian style, it is flanked by a flamboyant Gothic stele, 17th century altarpieces, and antique furniture from the Renaissance. In front of the bed, three armchairs that Victor Hugo dedicated to the Pater, Mater and Filius (loved and lover. On the ceiling, an 17th century Gobelin tapestry. -
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The hallway of the ground floor leading to the garden. Ceiling and walls are covered with crockery. The family did not know where to store the pile of purchases and gifts. Victor Hugo thought that a wall should not be naked and that the plates were a good diversion for the eye. -
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The iron external staircase that Victor Hugo set up to go faster from the summer garden to his observatory-office . -
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Exiled following the coup d’état of 2 December 1951 perpetrated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Victor Hugo eventually acquired a house in Guernsey in which he stayed until 1870. The large house, of 18 rooms, which, from the top of the hill dominates Saint-Pierre-le-Port, testifies to its creative genius. She is baroque and black, eccentric and crazy, white and mysterious. Victor Hugo put all his talent of imagination, drawing, manufacturing all the furniture, using panels taken with antique sculpted linen boxes, doors of the XVI ° century, more than 150 square meters of tapestries of Aubusson and Gobelins, an ample collection of chinoiseries, porcelains, mirrors, clocks and ceramics It is on the top floor of this house, in the glass “lookout”, thus called by himself, that he completed “Les Miserables” and wrote “Les Travailleurs de la Mer”. -
Hauteville House - Victor Hugo's home
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Exiled following the coup d’état of 2 December 1951 perpetrated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Victor Hugo eventually acquired a house in Guernsey in which he stayed until 1870. The large house, of 18 rooms, which, from the top of the hill dominates Saint-Pierre-le-Port, testifies to its creative genius. She is baroque and black, eccentric and crazy, white and mysterious. Victor Hugo put all his talent of imagination, drawing, manufacturing all the furniture, using panels taken with antique sculpted linen boxes, doors of the XVI ° century, more than 150 square meters of tapestries of Aubusson and Gobelins, an ample collection of chinoiseries, porcelains, mirrors, clocks and ceramics It is on the top floor of this house, in the glass “lookout”, thus called by himself, that he completed “Les Miserables” and wrote “Les Travailleurs de la Mer”.
Inspired Homes / 9 – Victor Hugo’s
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Hauteville House in Guernsey: “A poem in several rooms”
Exiled following the coup d’état of 2 December 1951 perpetrated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Victor Hugo eventually acquired a house in Guernsey in which he stayed until 1870.
The large house, of 18 rooms, which, from the top of the hill dominates Saint-Pierre-le-Port, testifies to its creative genius. She is baroque and black, eccentric and crazy, white and mysterious. Victor Hugo put all his talent of imagination, drawing, manufacturing all the furniture, using panels taken with antique sculpted linen boxes, doors of the XVI ° century, more than 150 square meters of tapestries of Aubusson and Gobelins, an ample collection of chinoiseries, porcelains, mirrors, clocks and ceramics It is on the top floor of this house, in the glass “lookout”, thus called by himself, that he completed “Les Miserables” and wrote “Les Travailleurs de la Mer”.
