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Adèle Foucher (27 September 1803 – 27 August 1868) was the wife of French writer Victor Hugo, with whom she was acquainted from childhood. Her affair with the critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve became the raw material for Sainte-Beuve's 1834 novel, Volupté . [ 1 ]
) His wife Adèle had died in 1868. Hugo on his deathbed (photographed by Nadar) Tomb of Victor Hugo at the Panthéon. His faithful mistress, Juliette Drouet, died in 1883, only two years before his own death. Despite his personal loss, Hugo remained committed to the cause of political change.
Adèle Hugo (French pronunciation: [adɛl yɡo]; 24 August 1830 – 21 April 1915) was the fifth and youngest child of French writer Victor Hugo.She is remembered for developing schizophrenia as a young woman, which led to a romantic obsession with a British military officer who rejected her.
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In 1833, while playing the role of Princess Négroni in the stage production Lucrezia Borgia she met Victor Hugo, whose wife Adèle was having an affair with the critic Sainte-Beuve. [2] Her last stage role was of Lady Jane Grey in Hugo's Marie Tudor in 1833, after which she abandoned her theatrical career and dedicated the remainder of her ...
Charles-Victor Hugo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl viktɔʁ yɡo]; 4 November 1826 – 13 March 1871) was a French journalist and photographer. He was the second son of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher .
La Esmeralda, opera by Louise Bertin (1836), with libretto by Victor Hugo; Esmeralda, opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1847) based on the Victor Hugo novel; Esmeralda (1856), opera in English with a score by Vincenzo Battista; In 1864, an opera by William Henry Fry with libretto by his brother Joseph Reese Fry based on the Victor Hugo novel.
François-Victor Hugo (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa viktɔʁ yɡo]; 28 October 1828 – 26 December 1873) [1] was the fourth of five children of French novelist Victor Hugo and his wife Adèle Foucher. François-Victor is best known for his translations of the works of William Shakespeare into French, which were published in 18 volumes ...