His novel, Les Misérables

• It has been adapted for theatre and cinema.

• We know more about its overall

  1

  plot
   than about its author.

His early career

• In Paris, his career was successful and he led the Romantic movement.

• He spoke publicly about social issues, such as

  2

  poverty
   and education.

• Napoleon III disliked his views and exiled him.

His exile from France

• Victor Hugo had to live elsewhere in

  3

  Europe
  .

• He used his income from the sale of some

  4

  poetry
   he had written to buy a house on Guernsey.

His house on Guernsey

• Victor Hugo lived in this house until the end of the Empire in France.

• The ground floor contains portraits,

  5

  drawings
   and tapestries that he valued.

• He bought cheap

  6

  furniture
   made of wood and turned this into beautiful wall carvings.

• The first floor consists of furnished areas with wallpaper and

  7

  lamps
   that have a Chinese design.

• The library still contains many of his favourite books.

• He wrote in a room at the top of the house that had a view of the

  8

  harbour/harbor
  .

• He entertained other writers as well as poor

  9

  children
   in his house.

• Victor Hugo's

  10

  relatives
   gave ownership of the house to the city of Paris in 1927.