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
Portrait of Juliette Drouet, by Charles-Émile-Callande de Champmartin, 1837
Juliette Drouet as Princess Negroni in Lucrèce Borgia
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'
Juliette Drouet
…a mass of blue-black hair. 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. Her last stage role was of Lady Jane Grey in Hugo's Marie Tudor in 1833, after which she abandoned…
Adèle Hugo as a young woman, by Louis Boulanger
Adèle Hugo in later life, by Pierre Petit