[Photographie ancienne][envoi autographe] HUGO (Charles) : Portrait of Victor HUGO in Jersey. 7 by 8.5 cm for the photograph, 15 cm by 19.8 cm for the document, 25.5 cm by 32.4 cm for the frame. Rare period print on salted paper of the famous portrait made by his son Charles circa 1853 in JERSEY. It is accompanied by a beautiful autograph from Victor HUGO: To my valiant comrade in poetry and exile CAHAIGNE. Victor HUGO, Guernsey, 1859. Jules CAHAIGNE (1796-1860), a man of letters, took an active part in the Revolution of 1830. A Republican, he was editor-in-chief of the Paris Commune in 1848-1849, then a member of the Socialist Electoral Committee and the Central Resistance Committee in 1851. He was arrested on 2 December 1851 (Napoleon III's coup d'état), then deported to Jersey. He then played an important role among the proscribed, and was one of the main editors of l'Homme, a proscription newspaper founded on 30 November 1853. He co-signed a text written by Victor Hugo to protest against the expulsion of Ribeyrolles, Pianciani and Thomas, who had published the open letter to Queen Victoria written by Félix Pyat. This protest led to their expulsion from Jersey. CAHAIGNE took refuge in Guernsey, as did Victor HUGO, who left Jersey on 31 October 1855. His son Charles HUGO (1826-1871): this second son of Victor Hugo (the first died in infancy) became Lamartine's secretary in February 1848. That same year, with his father, his brother François-Victor, Paul Meurice and Auguste Vacquerie, he founded the political newspaper L'Événement. At first, he supported Lamartine, then approved the candidacy of Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte against Cavaignac. Disappointed by the coup d'état, in 1851 he published an article against the death penalty and was then prosecuted and defended by his father. Sentenced to 6 months in prison, he was imprisoned in the Conciergerie. Once out of prison, he joined his father in exile in Brussels, then Jersey and Guernsey. In November 1852, he set up a photography studio at Marine Terrace, the property where the outlaw Victor Hugo and his family lived. Charles Hugo and Auguste Vacquerie took over three hundred photographs during their exile in Jersey, bearing witness to the lives of the outlaws. Although he did not take the photographs himself, Victor Hugo often took part in staging them and planned to use them to illustrate his books and even to publish a collection, although these projects never materialised. Photo slightly lightened, rare foxing on the margins where HUGO's autograph letter is found, small bump on the frame. Exceptional document of Victor HUGO's 19 years of proscription and exile (1851-1870)...