Maison de Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s life takes on a rare kind of concreteness inside the Maison de Victor Hugo—his rented home for 16 years, from 1832 to 1848. In October 1832, when Hugo was 30, he moved in with his wife Adèle, taking a 280-square-metre apartment on the second floor. The building itself points farther back than Hugo: the lot here was granted in 1605, and later the de Rohans family substantially improved the mansion, giving it the name Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée. Within the museum, your route moves from an antechamber through the Chinese living room and a medieval-style dining room, ending at Hugo’s bedroom, where he died in 1885. The house becomes a public site through a donation: Paul Meurice gave a large gift to the City of Paris so the city could buy the property and turn it into a museum. Since January 1, 2013, it has been part of Paris Musées, the city’s network of fourteen museums.
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