Victor Hugo
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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Hugo in 1875
Sophie Trébuchet, mother of Victor Hugo
General Joseph-Leopold Hugo, father of Victor Hugo
Hugo by Jean Alaux, 1825
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'
Victor Hugo
…the following year and began attending law school. Hugo fell in love and secretly became engaged, against his mother's wishes, to his childhood friend Adèle Foucher. In June 1821, Sophie Trebuchet died, and Léopold married his long-time mistress Catherine Thomas a month later. Hugo married Adèle the following year…
Adèle Hugo as a young woman, by Louis Boulanger
Adèle Hugo in later life, by Pierre Petit