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Later life and death. She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843, but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat overturned on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843. Nineteen years old and pregnant, she died when her wet, heavy skirts pulled her down, and her husband died trying to ...
By assembling Pauca Meae, Hugo ensured that Léopoldine was no longer just his late daughter, who drowned in the Seine in 1843, but also a poetical figure known throughout the country. Pauca Meae was Victor Hugo’s final gift for his daughter – literary immortality, life after death. 1Correspondance de Victor Hugo, 1837.
Apr 15, 2024 · The death of Léopoldine Hugo. On September 4th 1843, the 19-year-old daughter of French writer, Victor Hugo, drowned in the Seine. Léopoldine Hugo and her recent husband, Charles Vacquerie, had taken a boat onto the section of the river that passes the commune of Villequier in Normandy.
Mar 6, 2024 · Leopoldine Hugo. Leopoldine Hugo was Victor and Adele’s eldest daughter. She was only 19 and pregnant when she died. She and her husband Charles were out sailing on the Seine when their boat capsized. He drowned trying to save her, diving down and swimming underneath the boat six times in an effort to rescue her.
Les Contemplations as a work of mourning The Contemplations are above all a collection of nostalgia and in particular of the memory of Léopoldine, the poet's daughter, who died drowned in the Seine with her husband on September 4, 1843, whose death Hugo learned of by chance in the press on September 9, 1843 in Rochefort, when he returned from ...
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Dec 1, 2006 · Victor Hugo 's beloved daughter Leopoldine died at age 19, drowned tragically a few months after she was married. Her young husband died trying to save her. Hugo had always felt especially close to his eldest daughter, born when he was only 22, and never completely got over her death.
Jul 24, 2015 · Léopoldine died a most tragic death, aged just 19. From Wikipedia: She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843 but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843.
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