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Léopoldine was born in Paris, the second of five children and eldest daughter of Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher. She was named after her paternal grandfather, Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo, [1] as was her late brother, Léopold, who died in infancy. Despite her father's growing anti-clerical views, Léopoldine grew up as a devout Catholic.
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Léopoldine Hugo à 13 ans by Louis Boulanger, 1837. “I was never cheerful when I thought she was sad; I was dull in the midst of the merriest ball If, while leaving, I had seen any shadow in her eyes.”. Pauca Meae, Les Contemplations, Victor Hugo. Although Hugo was a father to three other children, he kept a special place in his heart for ...
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Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo (28 August 1824 – 4 September 1843) was the eldest daughter of Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher. Victor Hugo was devastated when his oldest and favorite daughter, Léopoldine Hugo , died at age 19 in 1843, shortly after her marriage.
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. They capsized and Léopoldine was pulled down by her ...
Jul 24, 2015 · Léopoldine au livre d’heures (1835) ~ Auguste de Chatillon (France, 1813-1881) Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo on the day of her first communion. The painting dates 28 August 1835, which marks the 11th birthday of Hugo’s daughter, born the 28th of August 1824. Léopoldine died a most tragic death, aged just 19. From ...
Aug 21, 2019 · Hugo’s unexpected, posthumous ascendance in the Cao Dai religion was born from the best themes of his work: the dissent in his political writing, the love in his poems, and the humanism in his fiction. In 1853, during a period of political exile on the island of Jersey, and shortly after the death of his daughter Léopoldine, Victor Hugo ...
At the center of Les Contemplations is Léopoldine, the poet's daughter, whose death by drowning on September 4, 1843, marked a turning point in Hugo's life. Following that tragedy, the poet went through a long fallow period, only surmounted in 1845 after the most intense humiliation of his career.
