Adèle Foucher
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Adèle Foucher 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'
Adèle Hugo as a young woman, by Louis Boulanger
Adèle Hugo in later life, by Pierre Petit
Juliette Drouet
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Juliette Drouet was a French actress. She abandoned her career on the stage after becoming the mistress of Victor Hugo, to whom she acted as a secretary and travelling companion. Juliette accompanied
Adèle Foucher
…her husband. She then began her affair with Hugo's friend Sainte-Beuve, which lasted until around 1837. In 1833, Victor Hugo had become involved with Juliette Drouet, who became his long-term mistress. In response, Foucher gradually ended her relationship with Sainte-Beuve. Although Hugo did consider leaving Foucher…
Portrait of Juliette Drouet, by Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin, 1837
Juliette Drouet as Princess Negroni in Lucrèce Borgia