Hauteville House owned by municipality of Paris
Hauteville House is a house where Victor Hugo lived during his exile from France, located at 38 Hauteville in St. Peter Port in Guernsey. In March 1927, the centenary year of Romanticism, Hugo's descendants Jeanne, Jean, Marguerite and François donated the house to the City of Paris. It currently houses an honorary consul to the French embassy at London and a Victor Hugo museum; house and garden are both open to the public.20th and 21st Century
The City of Paris conserves the two houses that Victor Hugo lived in the longest : the Rohan-Guéménée mansion in Paris and Hauteville House in Guernsey. Hauteville House was given to the City of Paris in 1927 by the descendants of Victor Hugo.The structure of the building undertook a major renovation in 2008-9  and, in 2017, an appeal was launched to pay for the renovation of internal decorations.François Pinault donated £2.6m (€3m) to renovate the interior, and the house reopened on 7 April 2019.
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