Victor Hugo Museum (Musée Victor Hugo), Villequier

The Victor Hugo Museum is housed in the Maison Vacquerie, an elegant 19th-century bourgeois residence belonging to a wealthy shipowner family from Le Havre. This museum holds profound significance as the site where Victor Hugo's daughter Léopoldine spent her summer holidays and where tragedy struck on September 4, 1843, when she drowned in the Seine just six months after her wedding. The museum contains the third-largest collection in France dedicated to Victor Hugo and his family, featuring original manuscripts, letters, drawings, and historic photographs from the Hugo-Vacquerie photography studio created during the writer's exile.