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Victor Hugo autographs
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Reference to the Victor Hugo autographs (return to Paul Harris' office)
Towards the end of June 1937, en route from Paris to Britain, Paul Harris stopped for a few days in the Channel Isles. One reason for his desire to visit the island of Guernsey, as he told Rotarians, "was by reason of the fact that it was for a time the home of Victor Hugo, and the place where his novel 'The Toilers of the Sea' was written." Harris was especially interested in the work of Victor Hugo, who had originally arrived on the island of Guernsey in 1855 and stayed there until 1870, during which time he wrote several novels including 'Les Miserable's'. In Guernsey, Harris made a special visit to Hauteville, the home of Victor Hugo in St Peter Port, where the writer spent some years living in exile. Hugo had returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon the Third at Sedan but went back to Hauteville on various occasions until his death in Paris in 1885.

During a boat trip to the island of Sark, Harris declared himself much impressed by the caves and coast line. He was particularly interested in the grotto in which the hero of Victor Hugo's novel 'Toilers of the Sea' had the battle with the octopus. He was also delighted when, during a visit to the "lovely home of Past President Le Messurier (in Jersey), he was presented with original signatures of Victor Hugo". These much treasured souvenirs were framed and can still be seen in the Paul Harris Gallery.

Victor Hugo
Poet & Novelist

1802-1885

Each man should frame life so that at some
   future hour fact and his dreaming meet.   —Victor Hugo

Senior Rotary Global History Fellowship Historian Basil Lewis, 5 March 2006

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