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 accept, as a token of gratitude, this portrait, painted by the slightly veiled Jersey sun, but a very good likeness."

A beautiful letter from the great man, an outlaw, indulging in photography with the noblest of collaborators: the sun.

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"The little English I know, dear and valiant fellow citizen of the Universal Republic, allows me to judge that your translation is excellent. Please accept, I beg you, the portrait taken by the slightly veiled Jersey sun, but a very good likeness. I will be delighted if you find it pleasing. I cordially shake your hand. Victor Hugo. Would you be so kind as to have the enclosed letter mailed? Mr. Bonaparte has letters stamped from Jersey opened. "

In the aftermath of Bonaparte's coup d'état, Victor Hugo chose exile. On December 11, 1851, armed with a false passport, he fled Paris for Brussels. In August 1852, he left Belgium for London and settled in Saint Helier, the capital of the island of Jersey. The Hugo family moved to 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 struggle. The great man also devoted himself to photography, working alongside his son Charles and Auguste Vacquerie. Nearly three hundred photographs taken during his exile bore witness, through images, to his life as an outlaw.