09-08-2025
Step closer for Victor Hugo Centre as £3m raised
A charity hoping to open a Victor Hugo Centre has announced it has raised £3m towards its £7.5m money raised through pledges and donations has been given to help create an event space, museum and learning hub in the States Offices building in St Peter said the centre would bring educational, cultural, economic and tourism benefits for the raised includes matched funding from the States of 50 pence for every £1 donated privately.
Hugo lived in Guernsey for 15 years and in St Peter Port he wrote novels including Les Miserables, Toilers of the Sea, The Man Who Laughs, The Legend of the Ages and Ninety-Three at Hauteville States Offices building earmarked to become the centre overlooks the harbour where Hugo first arrived in 1855 after three years in Jersey.
