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Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Leopoldine Hugo

Role
  
Victor Hugo\'s daughter


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Full Name
  
Leopoldine Cecile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo

Born
  
28 August 1824 (
1824-08-28
)
Paris, France

Died
  
September 4, 1843, Villequier, France

Spouse
  
Charles Vacquerie (m. ?–1843)

Parents
  
Adele Foucher, Victor Hugo

Siblings
  
Adele Hugo, Francois-Victor Hugo, Charles Hugo, Leopold Hugo

Grandparents
  
Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, Sophie Trebuchet

Similar People
  
Victor Hugo, Adele Foucher, Charles Vacquerie, Adele Hugo, Juliette Drouet

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Léopoldine Hugo (Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo; 28 August 1824 – 4 September 1843) was the eldest daughter of novelist, poet, and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher.

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Early life

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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, as was her brother Léopold.

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Léopoldine had many suitors, including her future husband, Charles Vacquerie, whom she met while on holiday in 1839.

Later life and death

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She married Charles Vacquerie at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843, but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843. She died when her wet, heavy skirts pulled her down, and her husband died trying to save her. This tragic event 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.

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References

Léopoldine Hugo Wikipedia