This month in history – December 10, 50 and 100 years ago in France We look back at important events that happened in December 2012, 1972 and 1922
Hugo home is anything but Misérable Hauteville House, Victor Hugo’s home on Guernsey, has been reopened to the public after an extensive one-year restoration designed to return the house to the way it looked when the author wrote Les Misérables there.
Victor Hugo’s ‘work of art’ on Guernsey to get revamp When Victor Hugo, writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was exiled from France he spent 15 years in Hauteville House, Guernsey, where he wrote Les Misérables. It is now a Hugo museum but needs renovation and, Mark Hayes says, funds
