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Nineteen years old and pregnant, she died when her wet, heavy skirts pulled her down, and her husband died trying to save her. This tragic event had a great impact on the work and personality of her father, Victor Hugo.
In Pauca Meae, Hugo goes beyond the tradition of the genre, by creating a ‘tombeau’ for a loved one rather than a public figure 3 and writing about the grief her death left behind as well as her time among the living.
May 24, 2024 · Léopoldine Hugo's death inspired one of her father's most poignant poems. Hugo's last letter to his daughter illustrates his tender devotion.
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.
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.
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.
Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection Les Contemplations. It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo's grave four years after her death. Text and translation
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