day, the fore of Saint Victor. A nunbor A charming ceremony took place yosté
admirers of Victor' Hugo went in pilgtimage to ahous"'in the Rue do In Tour @Anvergne which was formerly inhibited by the great post, There in the courtyard was placed small bust in bronze crowned. with laurels, Victor Hugo lived in the house which now bears the number 4l,. about 185), Ho was constantly changing his abode, He began by living in the Rue clu Faubourg St. Jacques. At the death of his mother he moved to the Ruedu Dragon, ating street at the commencement of the Tatin Quarter, Afcor his marriage he lived in the Rue Notre Dame des Champs, and eventually in a new house in the' then recently constructed street Jean Goujon. Thence he moved to the famous hotel in Place Royale, that interesting old square in the heart of Paris which t -day is known as the Place de Vosges. Then came, another "déménagement" to. the Rue de TTslyy, and finally to the Rue de In 'Tour @Auvergne. This was the Inst plice'in which the literary Titan lived before his departure to exile. 'The poet's apartments were situated on the first floor, the windows of which give on the' courtyard. In those. days there was a. splendid garden behind the house, and it is said that the verse he wrote beginning: "Lo jardin tait grand, protond, mystérienx," was inspired by its pleasant. neighbourhood.
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