Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo

His novel, Les Misérables
  ● It has been adapted for theatre and cinema.
  ● We know more about its overall (31) than about its author.

His early career
  ● In Paris, his career was successful and he led the Romantic movement.
  ● He spoke publicly about social issues, such as (32) and education.
  ● Napoleon III disliked his views and exiled him.

His exile from France
  ● Victor Hugo had to live elsewhere in (33) .
  ● He used his income from the sale of some (34) he had written to buy a house on Guernsey.

His house on Guernsey
  ● Victor Hugo lived in this house until the end of the Empire in France.
  ● The ground floor contains portraits, (35) and tapestries that he valued.
  ● He bought cheap (36) made of wood and turned this into beautiful wall carvings.
  ● The first floor consists of furnished areas with wallpaper and (37) that have a Chinese design.
  ● The library still contains many of his favourite books.
  ● He wrote in a room at the top of the house that had a view of the (38) .
  ● He entertained other writers as well as poor (39) in his house.
  ● Victor Hugo’s (40) gave ownership of the house to the city of Paris in 1927.