Okay so a previous Victor Hugo post has reminded me of when I went to visit his residence on my home island, Hauteville House.
And I want to tell you about the most extra room in the most extra house of the most extra man.
Since Victor Hugo expected to die on the island, in his house, he furnished one of the second floor (or third floor for you people who don’t have ground floors) rooms to house his deathbed.
Pretty badass looking deathbed.
BUT WAIT it gets better
See this man who slept normally in the servants quarters on the top floor in relative modesty (though those rooms are pretty fucking swish by todays standards), he wanted his death to be something pretty grand and symbolic so THIS FUCKING MAN made his death room a fucking journey from the deathbed to heaven.
So we continue down the room and it turns into a fucking church with pews and all and all these wood mouldings like damn dude!
and tHEN
in the middle of the room is a big ass candelabra which is perhaps supposed to be the Biblical burning bush
AND THEN
You enter the judgement zone where his symbolic soul would be symbolically judged, a big fuck off table with 3 chairs for God, Mary, and Jesus
and we know this bECAUSE HE FUCKING LABLED THE CHAIRS
NOT TO MENTION that this was on the second floor which had a skylight on top of the staircase on which ‘God’s Light’ was written cause it’s meant to be Heaven whereas the very dark area at the very bottom of the stairs is dark as fuck because it’s the unenlightened earth!
LITERALLY LOOKING UP AT HEAVEN YO!
Victor Hugo, the most extra man who ever fucking lived!
omg THANK YOU for all the pictures, I can never get enough details about Hugo’s Amazing Appalling Fantastic Interior decorating choices!
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 