A genius of words, Victor Hugo was also a designer.

A talent to be discovered in the house of genius, place des Vosges in Paris, in an exhibition which opens Thursday for five months, in partnership with Europe 1. Nearly 120 works are presented, drawings made mainly in ink by China, sometimes embellished with charcoal or pencil. 

We know the writer Victor Hugo, the poet, the politician, but we know the designer less.

Nearly 120 works will be exhibited from Thursday at Maison Victor-Hugo, Place des Vosges in Paris, where the writer lived.

The opportunity to discover a new facet of the artist, just as remarkable.

"He will make very visionary imaginative drawings", describes the director of the museum, Gérard Audinet.

"It will become a kind of dream image. And there we enter the great Victor Hugo."

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"A density which belongs only to him"

His works are made mainly in Indian ink.

"He draws with his writing tool, that is to say his pen and ink, adding pencil, charcoal," says the director of the museum.

The result is serious representations, sometimes accentuated by soot and "a density which belongs only to him".

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"We feel that it is alive, that something is happening", marvels Gérard Audinet. "When we are in front of a drawing by Victor Hugo, we literally fall into it because it absorbs us. It's completely fascinating, and it makes you dream." The exhibition called "In the intimacy of genius", in partnership with Europe 1, will be held until November 21, 2021. Reservations must be made online.