Private shuttle transfer to the home museum of Victor Hugo in Paris

History and visit the home of Victor Hugo in Paris

Victor Hugo’s house is located on the Place des Vosges 4th arrondissement of Paris. This is a monographic museum of the French capital. Victor Hugo lived in an apartment on the second floor of the building between 1832 and 1848. The inauguration of the museum is made June 30, 1903. It covers an area of ​​280 square meters. The museum is under the direction of the public administrative Paris Museums. The home of Victor Hugo is located in the former Hotel de Rohan-Guémené also known as the hotel Lavardin. The writer had rented an apartment in the building to Ms. Péan de Saint-Gilles. He spent sixteen years in the building. He received a large number of friends in the apartment, including Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Vigny, Prosper Mérimée, Balzac, and Sainte-Beuve. He had a study where he wrote many books like Twilight songs, the inner voices, Lucretia, Mary Tudor, The Burgraves and some miserable. Its political, artistic and family life has undergone changes during these stays in the apartment. during this period he had lived marriage of his daughter Léopoldine. He was admitted to the French Academy, Au Pair in France and the National Assembly. This museum shows the public life and privacy of one of the most famous French writers Many improvements were made to the apartment. The area of ​​the apartment has been maintained while some did not retain their original state. The work led to the elimination of the corridor and balcony. An auction was held on the property of the family of the writer in 1852. Thus, the furniture of the apartment could not be restored as original. The central part of the former mansion is now owned by the city of Paris. The museum’s collections were established following the donation of Paul Meurice in 1902. The museum is composed by the discovery of the family apartment of Victor Hugo and the exhibition halls. It is divided into seven rooms and shows the path of the writer that is to say before, during and after the exile. The antechamber shows his youth while the red area shows his stay at the Place Royale. Two other rooms as well as Chinese living show exile between 1852 and 1870. It has a piece that shows the return of the family of the writer in the city of Paris. Photographs, documents, paintings of Victor Hugo are exposed in the apartment. In the first floor of the building are organized exhibitions such as the exhibition of a hundred drawings from the museum or an illustration of the works of the writer. This house also has a library and a cabinet of prints that retain a thousand documents on the life and works of Victor Hugo. The visit of the latter is due to an appointment. The guided tours are organized in the apartment of Victor Hugo. Younger people are also targeted by the museum through the implementation of various workshops. It is open every day of the week except Mondays and holidays. The entrance to the museum’s permanent collection is free.