Hauteville House
Subtitle: Museum guide
By: /written by Leïla Jarbouai and Gérard Pouchain
Contributors: Pouchain, Gérard
Publisher: Paris Musees
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9782759601318
Subjects: Hauteville House (Saint Peter Port, Channel Islands); Hauteville House (Saint Peter Port, Guernsey)
Notes: "This sumptuously illustrated guide - teeming with historical and artistic references - retraces Victor Hugo's years of exile in the Channel Islands, first on Jersey from 1853 to 1855, where he pursued his combat for the great humanitarian causes and took up photography, then on Guernsey, where he bought a house for the first time. It was at Hauteville House, an imposing white building with a garden looking out over the ocean, that he produced some of his most famous works and finest drawings, and where he also gave free rein to his little-known talents as an interior designer ..."--Back cover.

Museum Guide.