Léopoldine Hugo

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Portrait of Léopoldine Hugo. Painted by Auguste de Châtillon in 1836, on the day of her first communion.

Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo, born in Paris 28 August 1824 and died in Villequier on 4 September 1843, was the daughter of novelist, poet and dramatist Victor Hugo.

She died in the company of her husband Charles Vacquerie - when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843, and they both drowned only a few months after their marriage. This had a great impact on the work and personality of her father Victor Hugo. He dedicated numerous poems to the memory of his daughter, notably Demain dès l'aube and À Villequier in Pauca Meae, the fourth book of Les Contemplations.

[edit] External links

• (French) Complete text of Contemplations, on Wikisource.
• (French) The Maison Vacquerie, in Villequier, houses the departemental Museum of Victor Hugo