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# Victor Hugo's exile after the 1851 coup and his house Hauteville House on Guernsey
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- Published: 2019-05-25T11:11:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:04:21.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Books, Society, People

On 2 December 1851, after the coup d'état, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte banished Victor Hugo from France. The writer fled to Belgium, passing himself off as a printing-house worker, Jacques Firmin Lanvin, and from there he was expelled in 1852\. In 1854 he finally settled on Guernsey, an Anglo-Norman island in the English Channel. These French-speaking territories are possessions of the British Crown, yet form no part of the Empire, and it was here that Hugo would settle for 15 years.

On Guernsey Victor Hugo had the good fortune to buy the spacious Hauteville House, sold to him at a reasonable price, a concession made to an exiled celebrity. The writer set about reconstructing his new property at once, adding two storeys, altering the layout and changing the finishing and furnishings entirely. Everything in this house he thought out and planned himself, drawing up the sketches and designs himself, choosing the furniture and fabrics himself.