#hauteville

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View of Hauteville-Gondon, Savoy region of France

French vintage postcard

[songedunenuitdete]

Love, Theoretically de Ali Hazelwood

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Jean Baptiste Hugo announced as Guest of Honor at Barricades 2024

Barricades 2024 is pleased to announce Jean Baptiste Hugo as one of our Guests of Honor for this year's convention. Jean Baptiste Hugo is the great-great-grandson of Victor Hugo. He has extensively photographed Hugo's home in exile on Guernsey, a project about which he said this: “In 2014, I was about to start a series of photographs of Hauteville House, where Victor Hugo stayed in exile for 15 years. I had the intention, picturing in my mind the dark gothic rooms, to use the legendary black and white 400 Tri-X Kodak film, known for its grainy quality and its rich black tones. It just happened that around that same period I started looking into the extraordinary colour possibilities offered by digital photography, having considered it for years , I must admit, as very inferior to black and white film. The introduction I was given to digital colour photography inspired me enough to try and capture as faithfully as I could the colourful atmosphere of my ancestor’s folly on Guernsey and, I am glad I did, as it allowed me to engage in an exploration of colour and texture in a very creative way which I am still pursuing today through other photographic subjects.”

[cliozaur]

I am going to Guernsey at the end of this month! I am going to see Hugo's Hauteville House, the place where Les Misérables was written! I'm so so so excited! Promise to write a report.

[baheuldey]

Vaches III, 2024, aquarelle sur papier, 29,7 x 21 cm

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[vieillesboutiques]

Le Grand Couloir, téléski (et petite restauration) à Hauteville-Lompnes, Ain.

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Hauteville House,Guernsey, the home of French classic novelist Victor Hugo,author of literary historical classic, Les Miserables

Hauteville House,St Peter Port,Guernsey,Channel Islands,GY1 1DG,UK (Though the house is owned by the city of Paris,the French capitol.)

Museum and French consulate residence

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Tancred of Hauteville, Prince of Antioch, takes possession of Bethlehem on 6 June 1099 | Tancrède de Hauteville, prince d'Antioche, prend possession de Bethléem, le 6 juin 1099

by Pierre-Henri Révoil

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Street scene in Hauteville-sur-Mer, Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

[songedunenuitdete]

The love hypothesis de Ali Hazelwood

🌺Mon #avis sur The love hypothesis de Ali Hazelwood sorti chez Hauteville (@BragelonneFR), est en ligne 🥰 🔥J'ai eu un coup de ❤️ pour cette histoire et ses personnages. J'ai kiffé ma lecture, ça c'est clair !

[venicepearl]

Constance I (2 November 1154 – 27 November 1198) was reigning Queen of Sicily from 1194–98, jointly with her spouse from 1194 to 1197, and with her infant son Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1198, as the heiress of the Norman kings of Sicily. She was also Holy Roman Empress and later Dowager by marriage to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

When she was young, as the sole heir to the throne of Sicily, she didn't marry until she was 30 because of an ominous prophecy; shortly after becoming empress she was involved in the succession war against her illegitimate nephew King Tancred of Sicily for the Sicilian throne, during which, rarely for an empress, she was captured during such an offensive campaign, though finally without danger she escaped. In the history of Holy Roman Empire only two empresses had ever been captured, the other being her mother-in-law Empress Beatrice.

Shortly before ascending the Sicilian throne, at the advanced age of 40, she gave birth to her only child – Frederick, thus continuing the bloodlines of both Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Sicily.

After the death of her husband, she gave up the throne of the Holy Roman Empire in the name of her son, despite him being King of the Romans, in favor of her younger brother-in-law Philip of Swabia, making her son merely King of Sicily; meanwhile she still claimed herself Holy Roman Empress Dowager. Passing away merely one year later, she entrusted her young son to Pope Innocent III.