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Hugo and Architecture: From Stone to the Pen
Culture · Sunday, October 4 · 10:00 · Paris
Maison de Victor Hugo, 6 place des Vosges
Free
Following the Hugo the Decorator exhibition currently presented at the Maison de Victor Hugo, this exhibition explores the links between Victor Hugo and architecture, highlighting how architecture unfolds in his literary and graphic work. A Romantic writer, accomplished playwright, committed poet, visionary artist, and designer, Victor Hugo has a privileged and essential relationship with architecture that has always deeply inspired him. Churches, cathedrals and castles fill his notebooks and give meaning to his narratives. As in the first half of the 19th century where literary ...