Hugo and Architecture: From Stone to Pen

Maison de Victor Hugo, 6 place des Vosges

Free

Following Hugo the decorator currently presented at the Maison de Victor Hugo, this exhibition explores the connections between Victor Hugo and architecture, highlighting how it unfolds in his literary and graphic work. Romantic writer, accomplished playwright, engaged poet, visionary artist, and decorator, Victor Hugo maintained a privileged and indispensable relationship with architecture that has always deeply inspired him. Churches, cathedrals and castles ink his notebooks and give meaning to his tales. In the early 19th century, as in the first half of the 1800s, where literature…