Victor HUGO creates photographs with his collaborator: the sun.

Victor HUGO (1802.1885)

Signed autograph letter.

One page in-8°.

[Jersey] Marine-Terrace. November 11, 1854.

“Please, please, receive as thanks the portrait made by the slightly veiled sun of Jersey, but very similar. »

Beautiful letter from the great man, outlawed, devoting himself to photography with the noblest of collaborators: the sun.

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“The little English that I know, dear and valiant fellow citizen of the Universal Republic, allows me to judge that your translation is excellent. Please, please receive as a thank you the portrait made by the slightly veiled sun of Jersey, but very similar. I will be delighted if it pleases you. I cordially shake your hand. Victor Hugo. Would you be so kind as to have the enclosed letter mailed? Mr. Bonaparte opens the letters stamped from Jersey. »

The day after Bonaparte's coup d'état, Victor Hugo chose exile. On December 11, 1851, with a false passport, he fled Paris for Brussels. In August 1852, he left Belgium for London and settled in Saint-Helier, capital of the island of Jersey. The Hugo family settled in Marine-Terrace where they remained until their departure for the neighboring island of Guernsey in October 1855.

This large white building became the heart of Hugo's inspiration and the stronghold of his anti-Bonapartist fight. The great man also devoted himself to photographic creation in the company of his son Charles and Auguste Vacquerie. Nearly three hundred exile photos will be taken, bearing witness, through images, to his life as an outlaw.