Just down the road in Le Marais, set on the beautiful Place des Voges is the Maison du Victor Hugo, or in other words Victor Hugo's house. A house where he penned many of his famous novels and wrote much of Les Mis. The house is free for visitors and you can wander around the upper floors through rooms that are either partly as were, or recreations of rooms in which Hugo lived.
Since my episode at the Art Decoratifs the other day I have become a little scared of the people who sit in corners keeping watch over the exhibition and I am sure that they only pretend to be asleep in order to catch you taking photos. Therefore I only had the courage for one cheeky snap of a room in Victor Hugo's house, I think it was a dining room (maybe the big table is a give away for that?). The rooms also had paintings of Hugo and his family, pieces of work and letters written by him. It talked a lot about the story of Notre Dame which I didn't actually realise until then was written by him. The disney version was my favourite film when I was little so this was quite exciting.
There wasn't really much mention of Les Miserables which was a shame, though you could pay to see a temporary exhibition elsewhere within the giant house on Politics and Victor Hugo so I suspect all the Les Mis stuff would have been in there as it is a controversial story bringing to light the plight of the poor in France. I attempted (/am attempting) to read the book in French but volume 1 has over 900 pages and I believe there are 3 or 4 volumes so I'm not getting very far. Cool to be in his house though and 17th century Place des Voges is stunning and one of the few places in Paris where you can sit on the grass.
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