Juiliette Drouet's Illustrations in her letters to Victor Hugo
Juliette Drouet letters to Victor Hugo
Juliette Drouet and Les Misérables
Juliette Drouet "reporting" on the Second Republic
Juiliette Drouet's Illustrations in her letters to Victor Hugo
Slang and neologisms in the letters of Juliette Drouet
Medicine and disease in the letters of Juliette Drouet
The Second Republic was not a happy period in Drouet and Hugo’s relationship.
Hugo was overloaded with his political activities and therefore spent less time with Drouet. He also had a further affair with Léonie d’Aunet, a writer and explorer.
As a result, Drouet often seemed paranoid about Hugo’s infidelities (with reason) and would complain about his neglect of her in almost every letter.
In this letter dated 17th June 1848 (see image) she added a drawing of herself shooting an arrow at the National Assembly, as Hugo spent too much time there for her liking.
The use of drawings is quite uncommon for the time as correspondence was considered a serious activity.
The Leeds collection counts four letters with this type of humorous drawing, while several dozen have been discovered during the processing of her 15,000 letters held in the French National Library.
