Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet

Before beginning to copy or count words,[59] I must write you one line of love, my dear little lunatic. I love you--do you understand, I love you! This is a profession of faith...

Victor Hugo never succeeded in making Juliette adopt his conception of love. He craved something calm, placid, regular as a time-table in its manifestations; but she was wont to...

Juliette relates that when she had occasion to admonish her maid, or find fault with a tradesman during her residence in Jersey and Guernsey, the answer she invariably received...

Two portraits of Victor Hugo are extant: one by Devéria executed in 1829, the other by Léon Noël in 1832.[3] What a change is visible in the short space of three years! The "mon...

_Drouet, Juliette_: Her birthplace, 1 Childhood, 3 Becomes Pradier's mistress, 8 Gives birth to a daughter, 8 Enters theatrical world, 9 Meets Victor Hugo, 13 Plays Princesse Ne...

About the year 1844, when Victor Hugo visited his friend on Sundays and holidays, he used to find seated at his private table, in accordance with his own permission, a tall girl...

An irregular outline, sombre colouring, a tangle of towers, steeples, high gables and ramparts, steep passages built in the form of steps: such was the town of Fougères at the b...

In the neighbourhood of Paris, about four miles from Versailles, nestles a valley which the modern devotees of romance should deem worthy of a visit. Not because it boasts of an...

When Victor Hugo grasped the full extent of the national disaster in August 1870, he started immediately for Belgium. On the proclamation of the Republic, he proceeded to the fr...