Jeanne Hugo
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Léopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo was a Belgian-born French heiress and socialite during La Belle Époque. She was a granddaughter of French novelist, poet, and politician Victor Hugo. As an
Hugo in 1890
Jeanne with her grandfather and brother in 1872.
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. As
Jeanne Hugo
…and Hugo was awarded custody of their children, preventing Daudet from seeing them for thirteen years. In 1896 she married the scientist and explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, the son of neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. He named Hugo Island after her grandfather. She divorced Charcot in 1905 on the grounds of desertion. In…
Charcot in 1925
Vague Bleue ou Pourquoi pas. Hommage au commandant Charcot, by the French painter Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, 2016 (80 x 120 cm, Acrylic and pencil).
Funeral of Charcot and his men in front of the Notre Dame, Paris, 1936
Board in memory of Charcot. Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland