Although his wife Adele fell in love with his trusted friend, Hugo, who was deeply shocked, never divorced her in order to take care of his wife's reputation, and has been quietly taking care of her life. However, at the age of 30, Hugo fell in love with actress Juliet, who was 4 years younger than him.
And Juliet, who had a married life, was willing to take her 4-year-old daughter to be Hugo's lover; And Hugo and Juliet's love without a marriage book lasted for 50 years; In these 50 years, Juliet wrote more than 18,000 letters to Hugo every day.
What kind of love life is this?
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Victor Hugo was born in 1802 to a family of military officers in the Besançon region of France. His father was a high-ranking general who regarded Napoleon as a hero. Due to his father's profession, Hugo's childhood was unstable, and he often traveled with his family. And it was during these many running experiences that Hugo's knowledge grew and exceeded the insight and courage of many ordinary peers.
As a teenager, when Hugo lived with his father in Paris, he met the beautiful daughter of the neighbor, Adele. Adele is a girl who loves art and loves life, and Hugo already showed great literary talent at the age of 15, and even won first place in the poetry competition of the Collège de France.
When Hugo and Adele are together, they always have endless words, and they always have a different feeling when they are with other girls. And the long-term intimate contact makes their feelings deeper and deeper.
On April 26, 1819, Hugo had the audacity to write his first courtship letter to Adele, who was only 15 years old. Hugo had the determination and confidence to win love and marriage, and when he signed the letter at the end, he confidently wrote "your husband". However, things did not go in the bright direction that Hugo imagined, and his mother Sophie strongly opposed their marriage because she was not optimistic about her son's relationship with Adele.
In 1822, the year after the death of his mother Sophie, Hugo and Adele, who had been in love for 3 years, married. They had five children, and although the first son died in infancy, the arrival of two sons and two daughters later made the family wrapped in joy and happiness.
However, this family, which is so happy and happy, is shattered by the hostess Adele's search for a new love.
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In 1927, as Hugo gained fame, a young critic named Saint-Beuve broke into the life of the Hugo family.
Although St. Beuve looks ordinary, his talent is extraordinary. He never hesitated to praise Hugo's work, and he was so unique that he developed a deep friendship with Hugo over time.
In addition to discussing literature, Hugo and Saint-Beuve became close friends in life. As a result, he was often present at Hugo's home.
St. Beuve was indeed a very young man, not only a brilliant critic, but also an extraordinary ability to see people's hearts. When the young man first saw Hugo's wife Adele in Hugo's house, he saw through Adele's loneliness and helplessness at a glance.
Because at that time, in order to take care of her children and family, the young Adele had to sacrifice her hobby of painting and her ideal of becoming a painter, but often came to the house as Mrs. Hugo to receive a group of people who came to her home to have a high-talk with Hugo.
Saint Beuve saw through Adele's loneliness, and was attracted by Adele's young beauty, and also knew Hugo's work and living habits, and he also knew that Hugo was busy with the creation of "Notre Dame de Paris" recently and even for some time to come.
As a result, Saint-Beuve constantly found opportunities to be alone with Adele, and even blatantly helped Adele take care of Hugo's children. Slowly, as the opportunities grew, and the time the two spent getting along longer, Saint-Beuve fell deeply in love with Adele, the wife of his good friend Hugo, and confessed his feelings to her.
To St. Beuve's surprise, after showing his heart to Adele, he was ugly and won Adele's heart without any hindrance. After Adele began to cheat, a flattered Saint Beuve rented an apartment near Hugo's house to facilitate his tryst with Adele.
However, the paper could not contain the fire after all, and Hugo still learned about the affair between his wife Adele and his best friend Saint-Beuve. Having always loved Adele, Hugo prayed that she would change her heart, leave St. Beuve, return to her side, to her own family.
However, Adele finally chose to be with Saint-Beuve. However, after Adele left Hugo, she did not get the happy life she wanted, and her life fell into a difficult situation for a while. And Hugo, who has a good heart and loves Adele deeply, has never divorced her in order to take care of her reputation, and has been silently taking care of her life.
However, it didn't take long for Hugo to meet his new love, and this time, he and she stayed together for 50 years.
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At the beginning of 1833, an actress entered Hugo's life by performing the play "Lucres Borgia" written by Hugo. At the age of 26, she and Hugo, 30, soon fell in love and began a paperless love legend that had been together for 50 years.
The actress is named Juliet Drouet and is 4 years younger than Hugo. Juliet is not only a woman of outstanding appearance and gentle personality, although she grew up in a monastery and has an illegitimate daughter, she loves poetry and often loves a few short poems by Hugo.
Juliet's arrival brought infinite warmth and inspiration to Hugo. Since then, Juliet has become his first reader of many poems and novels, and she is often moved to tears.
After they met, they soon lived together, and from then on, Juliet became Hugo's lover, confidant, secretary and admirer. Juliet allows Hugo's heart, which has been wounded by Adele's betrayal, to finally settle down. And it was from this that Hugo wrote the following sentence for Juliet:
"There are two lives in a person's life, the first time on the day of birth, and the second on the day of the germination of love."
However, what is written on paper does not really constrain a person's behavior. In addition to Juliet, Hugo, who was not very comfortable, had already had another woman, but Juliet knew it later.
In 1951, Juliet, who had been living with Hugo for 20 years, learned that Hugo had another mistress named Leoni, and that they had been thinking about it for seven years. Because of this familiar experience, Juliet and Adele developed a friendship.
Because he has not divorced Hugo, and because of the relationship between having 4 children, and Adele's life is not going well after leaving Hugo, Hugo has been taking care of Adele's life. Adele also had a different relationship with Juliet.
Adele invited Juliet to spend Christmas with the poor child, and later visited Juliet in person from time to time, but Juliet's loyalty to Hugo has never changed, even if Hugo has other lovers, she has never really divorced Adele, she has maintained her love with Hugo with her own efforts.
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Juliet's love for Hugo was sincere and deep, and no matter how Hugo changed, how difficult things he encountered, and how difficult the situation was, she followed him as closely as always.
Juliet is a lively and cute woman with infinite charm, she can actually find another man, get married, have children, and live the life she wants.
However, ever since she was with Hugo, Juliet loved him deeply. She decisively socialized for the sake of rain, and also removed the external glitz. As long as she was with Hugo, Juliet would love Hugo with selfless love, and she also copied manuscripts for Hugo and read his poems with deep affection.
Juliet also did not abandon Hugo, who was exiled abroad, and accompanied him to leave his homeland. This walk is 19 years, during which Juliet took care of Hugo's daily life, and Hugo, who has been wetting flowers and grass almost all his life, was not willing to be lonely during his exile, but Juliet still followed him with his loyalty.
From the day she was with Hugo, Juliet wrote a love letter to Hugo every day to express her deep love for Hugo. During the 50 years she spent with Hugo, Juliet wrote a total of 18,000 love letters to Hugo, and Hugo wrote a piece of literature every year to record his love with Juliet.
Hugo had a souvenir book to record some of his thoughts after being with Juliet. This commemorative book and the 18,000 love letters written to him by Juliet are now preserved in the National Library of France.
On May 11, 1883, Juliet died, ending her half-century love affair with Hugo. The innocent and pitiful Juliet did not receive a marriage letter that could prove that she and Hugo were husband and wife until she died. However, she used 18,000 love letters to write her immortal love.
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