Victor Hugo (1802–1885) is widely regarded as one of the greatest
writers of all time, dramatist
of the Romantic movement.During a literary career that spanned more than sixty
years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics,
satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical
essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and
private, and dramas in verse and prose.
Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest
and best-known French writers. Outside France, his most famous works are the
novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French:
Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831.
He spent a romantic life with a wide variety
of women of all ages, be they courtesans, actresses, prostitutes, admirers,
servants or revolutionaries like Louise Michel for sexual activity.
As
one reads Hugo’s biography it is possible to see that perhaps such characters
did not grow fully from his imagination. Victor Hugo had a large sexual
appetite and he satiated it throughout his life with many different women.
Hugo’s Wife Adele Foucher.
The Romantic life of Hugo began when as a
teenager; There are many stories linked with the marriage of Victor Hugo and
his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. Their marriage started strong,
according to the biography of the French novelist. One of the people writing
Hugo’s biography, Edward Behr, noted that Hugo made love nine times with his
wife on their wedding night.
His mother discouraged the romance,
believing that her son should marry into a finer family but after his mother’s
death he did marry Adele.
Together they had five children and it
seemed as though the stage for their life was set. What more could a couple ask
for, a happy marriage and many children? Apparently this couple wanted more
because they were both guilty of infidelity.
Mistresses &
Infidelity of Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo loved his wife, but that didn’t
stop him from cheating on her constantly. The famous writer had many
mistresses, one of which was his son’s wife. His first mistress was Juliette
Drouet. She became Hugo’s mistress in the same time his wife Adele was involved
in an affair with Charles Augustin, a friend of the writer.
Drouet was the longest tenured mistress of
the writer. Even though he had many other mistresses, he alwas came back to
Juliette, even making her his unpaid secretary.
Mistresses Leonie Biard
A name that is mentioned in almost every
biography of Hugo is mistresses, Leonie Biard. Around 1831 Hugo’s wife, Adele
Hugo became romantically involved with a well-known critic and good friend of
Victor’s named Sainte-Beuve.
Actress Juliette Drouet
From February 1833 until her death in 1883,
Juliette Drouet devoted her whole life to Victor Hugo, who never married her
even after his wife died in 1868. He took her on his numerous trips and she
followed him in exile on Guernsey.
There
Hugo rented a house for her near Hauteville House, his family home. She wrote
some 20,000 letters in which she expressed her passion or vented her jealousy
on her womanizing lover. On 25 September 1870 during the Siege of Paris (19
September 1870 – 28 January 1871) Hugo feared the worst. He left his children a
note reading as follows:
“J.D. She saved my life in December
1851. For me she underwent exile. Never has her soul forsaken mine. Let those
who have loved me love her. Let those who have loved me respect her. She is my
widow.”
Léonie d’Aunet
For more than seven years, Léonie d’Aunet,
who was a married woman, was involved in a love relationship with Hugo. Both
were caught in adultery on 5 July 1845. Hugo, who had been a Member of the
Chamber of Peers since April, avoided condemnation whereas his mistress had to
spend two months in prison and six in a convent. Many years after their
separation, Hugo made a point of supporting her financially.
Victor Hugo bedded his son’s lover Alice Ozy after writing
erotic letters to her
Victor Hugo also seduced the wife of his son.Alice
Ozy was cheating on Victor’s son.
He went
to his father and asked for help in fixing the situation. Hugo fixed it by
sending erotic odes to Alice who eventually succumbed to his charm and joined
the list of Hugo’s conquests much to the anger of his son.
In response, Hugo slept with Alice himself,
thinking that the embarrassing affair would “avenge” and cheer up his son. The
boy was shockingly ungrateful towards Hugo’s efforts.
Though
some might frown upon his many lovers others, like Graham who wrote one
biography, empathized with him and seemed to think that his lusty love life
simply helped to fuel his art.
“Sex
for him was a form of contemplation” he found his outlet for contemplation
in the many affairs that he had with actresses, wives and courtesans. To him
“fallen women and courtesans were a pleasant antidote to the hypocrisy of
high society.”
He used to be naked ,while at work
He took all his clothes off, locked himself
in a room with a pen and paper, and wrote. Hugo famously claimed that he wanted
to be in a room where not even clothes distract him. He was forcing himself to
write and ordered his servants not to bring him clothes until he has finished
writing a chapter.
Foot fetish
Back in the days, most of the great minds
were womanizers and enjoyed sex. Victor Hugo was one of the greatest writers,
but also one of the greatest sexual players in the world of writers.What is
interesting about Hugo’s sex life is that he was a foot fetishist.Many other
great writers have also been foot fetishists, including Dostoevsky, F. Scott
Fitzgerald and Goethe.
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