Adele Foucher
Adèle Julie Victoire Marie Foucher , also Adèle Hugo (born September 27, 1803 in Paris , † August 27, 1868 in Brussels ), was the wife of the French writer Victor Hugo .
Life
Adèle's father, the lawyer Pierre Foucher, civil servant at a Paris court, was friends with Victor Hugo's parents. Adèle Foucher and Victor Hugo had known each other since 1809. Both secretly got engaged in 1819. Victor Hugo's mother died in 1821. On October 12, 1822, the couple married in the Paris church of St-Sulpice against their parents' wishes.
The couple had five children:
- Léopold Victor Hugo (July 16, 1823 to October 10, 1823),
- Léopoldine Hugo (August 28, 1824 to September 4, 1843),
- Charles Hugo (November 4, 1826 to March 13, 1871),
- François-Victor Hugo (October 28, 1828 to December 26, 1873),
- Adèle Hugo (August 24, 1830 to April 21, 1915).
Because Victor Hugo became more and more immersed in writing, Adèle felt increasingly neglected and began a liaison with a friend of her husband, the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve . Victor Hugo, for his part, kept the actress Juliette Drouet as mistress from 1833 . The writer's extramarital relationship lasted fifty years - until Drouet's death. Adèle returned completely to the marital port in 1837 and, years later, became friends with the writer Léonie d'Aunet , wife of the painter François-Auguste Biard . From 1843 to 1850, Léonie was another friend of Victor Hugo's alongside Drouet.
Adele died after a stroke and was buried in Villequier with her daughter Léopoldine.
Others
Her brother was the playwright Paul Foucher .
Web links
- Literature by and about Adèle Foucher in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- February 5, 1958 in the mirror : Victor Hugo. Olympio
- Entry at hautevillehouse.com (French)
- Entry at victorhugo2002.culture.fr (French)
- Entry at jesuismort.com (French)
- Entry at aufeminin.com (French)
- Entry at history.com (English)
See also
- The story of Adèle H. - François Truffaut's 1975 film about the youngest daughter of the Hugo couple. Title role: Isabelle Adjani .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ministère de la culture et de la communication: Victor Hugo: la famille. Retrieved March 16, 2016 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foucher, Adèle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foucher, Adèle Julie Victoire Marie (full name); Hugo, Adèle; Foucher, Adèle; Hugo, Madame Victor; Hugo, Adèle Foucher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Victor Hugo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1868 |
| Place of death | Brussels |