Havelet Bay and the house of Victor Hugo

Today's blip is across Havelet Bay toward the Credit Suisse Bank building, the pink granite building in the left foreground.
More importantly, it also shows the house of Victor Hugo in Hauteville which is the house middle top. It has a large white gable and a conservatory on the ground floor. If you look in large you may also see 2 spiral staircases on the near corner.
Victor Hugo, the famous French Author lived in Guernsey for many years during which he wrote:
"The Toilers of the Sea" (French: Les Travailleurs de la Mer)
This book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile.
The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine.
Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations (which includes a battle with an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.
Also written in Guernsey, " Le Miserables" or "Le Mis", as it is fondly called is a brilliant musical which we saw and enjoyed at a London Theatre and, we look forward to seeing the film version asap....looks good on the ads.
For more Hugo data click..HERE
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