Adèle Foucher

Adèle Foucher was the wife of French writer Victor Hugo, with whom she was acquainted from childhood. Her affair with the critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve became the raw material for Sainte-Beuve's 1834 novel, Volupté. Adèle wrote a biography of her husband, published in 1863.

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