Adèle Foucher

Léopoldine's death in 1843, shortly after her marriage, caused great distress to her parents, and inspired many of her father's poems, especially those in Contemplations.

[9] Although Hugo did consider leaving Foucher at one point, they remained married, and in later life, when living on the island of Guernsey, a kind of friendship grew up between the wife and the mistress.

[10] After a period of political activity in the 1840s, Victor Hugo fell foul of France's new leader, Napoleon III, and he left the country, going first to Brussels and then to the island of Jersey.

In October 1855, he found a permanent home at Hauteville House in St Peter Port, Guernsey,[11] and brought his family to live there with him.

[13] Foucher died of a "cerebral congestion" at the age of 64, while staying in Brussels, and was buried at Villequier, near the grave of her daughter Léopoldine; her sons accompanied the body on its journey for burial.