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Victor Hugo Arrival

Victor Hugo's Guernsey

“I write to you with a wonderful view below my eyes…”

Brutally forced into exile for his opposition to the regime of Napoleon III, Victor Hugo headed first to Brussels, then to Jersey, before in October 1855 finally settling on the "gem of the sea", the island of Guernsey that would inspire many of his most famous works over the next 15 years.

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