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Adèle Foucher
Wife of Victor Hugo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the wife of Victor Hugo. Not to be confused with Adèle Hugo.
Adèle Foucher (27 September 1803 – 27 August 1868) was the wife of French writer Victor Hugo, with whom she was acquainted from childhood. Her affair with the critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve became the raw material for Sainte-Beuve's 1834 novel, Volupté.[1] Adèle wrote a biography of her husband, published in 1863.
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