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Léopoldine Cécile Marie-Pierre Catherine Hugo (28 August 1824 – 4 September 1843) was the eldest daughter of Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher.
Léopoldine Hugo, née le 28 août 1824 à Paris, et morte noyée le 4 septembre 1843 à Villequier (Seine-Inférieure), à l'âge de 19 ans, est la fille aînée du romancier, poète et dramaturge Victor Hugo et d'Adèle Foucher.
May 24, 2024 · The poem first appeared in 1856—one of seventeen compositions that Hugo dedicated to his daughter, Léopoldine, who drowned in a tragic accident at age 19. Hugo titled the collection Pauca meæ, which has been translated numerous ways but my favorite is Le peu de ce qu’il reste de ma fille.
Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection Les Contemplations. It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo's grave four years after her death. Text and translation
Jul 24, 2015 · See a painting of Léopoldine Hugo, the daughter of Victor Hugo, on her first communion day in 1835. Learn how she died at 19, drowning in the Seine with her husband, and how her father mourned her in his poems.
Les Contemplations ( The Contemplations) is a song and collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, published in 1856. It consists of 156 poems in six books. Most of the poems were written between 1841 and 1855, though the oldest date from 1830.
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By assembling Pauca Meae, Hugo ensured that Léopoldine was no longer just his late daughter, who drowned in the Seine in 1843, but also a poetical figure known throughout the country. Pauca Meae was Victor Hugo’s final gift for his daughter – literary immortality, life after death.
