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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.
Memory plays an important role in the collection, as Hugo was experimenting with the genre of autobiography in verse. The collection is equally an homage to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo, who drowned in the Seine in 1843.
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Jul 24, 2015 · 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 (1824-43) Léopoldine was born in 1824 and also named after Hugo's father. Tragedy struck the family when his daughter Léopoldine died in a tragic accident (September 1843). Léopoldine had married Charles Vacquerie only a few months earlier. Both she and her huband drowned.
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.
Mar 8, 2015 · The first two chapters present evidence of Hugo's narrative intention, place his work within an allegorical tradition, and describe the structure of the allegory. One poem, Pasteurs et troupeaux , is analyzed as a paradigm for the whole, and a single theme, that of Léopoldine as sacrificial muse and figure for poetic language, is traced ...
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.
