Victor Hugo and his favourite rocks at St Clement, Jersey.
W, Beach Rd, JE2, Jersey
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Rocks. Nice little plaque. It's alright, nothing special. Nice enough beach too. ▪︎Victor Hugo and his favourite rocks at St Clement, Jersey. Visited yesterday. "If there were fine places of exile, Jersey would be a charming exile. On the horizon, France appears like a cloud, and the future like a dream." Victor Hugo A place of refuge 1848 was a year of enormous turbulence in Europe bringing many political refugees to Jersey Poles, Russians, Hungarians and Italians sought safety in the Island and were followed by Frenchmen fleeing from Louis Napoleon after his coup d'état of 2 December 1851. Among them was Victor Hugo. French families continued to arrive in Jersey during the 1860s, this time seeking refuge from the Franco-Prussian war. Some of these political refugees sought temporary shelter in Jersey and returned to their home countries when it was safe to do so. Others made Jersey their permanent home. Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright and novelist who lived for 20 years in exile in the Channel Islands, initially in Jersey. Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels
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Visited yesterday.
"If there were fine places of exile, Jersey would be a charming exile. On the horizon, France appears like a cloud, and the future like a dream."
Victor Hugo
A place of refuge
1848 was a year of enormous turbulence in Europe bringing many political refugees to Jersey
Poles, Russians, Hungarians and Italians sought safety in the Island and were followed by Frenchmen fleeing from Louis Napoleon after his coup d'état of 2 December 1851. Among them was Victor Hugo.
French families continued to arrive in Jersey during the 1860s, this time seeking refuge from the Franco-Prussian war.
Some of these political refugees sought temporary shelter in Jersey and returned to their home countries when it was safe to do so. Others made Jersey their permanent home.
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright and novelist who lived for 20 years in exile in the Channel Islands, initially in Jersey.
Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
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