Victor Hugo Museum, Chinese room.

Victor Hugo is probably best known outside of France for his acclaimed "Les Misérables" and the "Hunchback of Notre-Dame". During a visit to the Victor Hugo museum, I was quite surprised to see the whole scope of this man's talent! Apart from producing more than 4000 drawings (mostly monochrome and in the Romantic tradition) his house is a jumble of styles. The main bedroom is a Baroque red chamber with tapestries on the ceiling and a desk where he wrote a lot of his master pieces, standing up. Some other highlights include an oriental blue chamber, a bust by Rodin depicting Victor Hugo and a most impressive Chinese room depicted above! This room certainly proves that "less can be a bore... more is more" ;-)