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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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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. They capsized and Léopoldine was pulled down by her ...
Mar 6, 2024 · 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. Quite understandably, Victor never really got ...
12. 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.
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- 1847
- Les Contemplations
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Hugo also clearly shows his refusal of death and never ceases to question God as to the meaning of Leopoldine's death. The death of Léopoldine shakes Hugo's faith and his trust in God. and even the idea that the Poet must become a messenger of God and a guide to peoples (an idea that is old for Hugo). At the same time, Hugo confesses his ...
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.
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