"Chez Victor Hugo à Guernesey" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening practice section.
In December 1851, French writer Victor Hugo went into exile for more than a decade, escaping tumultuous times in France. He finally settled on the Anglo-Norman island of Guernsey where he would live for 15 years. After Hugo’s death, his house there, Hauteville House, was turned into a museum, celebrating its renowned owner’s eclectic and eccentric sense of decor. Cécile takes us on a fascinating visit with the bilingual article below.
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Cécile is one of the Kwiziq French language experts. Born in Versailles, France, she has been living in the UK since the late 60s where she developed an extensive career as a successful language teacher of adults, mainly in the business world. She brings her 40-year expertise to answering questions in the Q&A Forum and creating content for Kwiziq. Cécile is a passionate linguist, an avid reader, and has an insatiable desire for learning new things. Her interests are varied and include cooking, the creative arts, Pilates, and Candy Crush Saga!
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!