Juliette DROUET (1806-1883) / Université inter-âges de l'Ain

Juliette Drouet (1806-1883).
Marie-Françoise BERRENDONNER

Juliette Drouet, companion of a lifetime: she accompanied Victor Hugo for fifty years. But what exactly was her role? The lecture will reveal the Juliette of pre-Hugo days, the actress praised and vilified by critics, then the jealous and tormented lover, the grieving mother who shared Victor Hugo's despair, and finally the companion in exile who became the center of the Hugo family. But Juliette is also a remarkable
letter-writer. Through Juliette Drouet, we examine the place of women in a certain class of 19th-century society.

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