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My Beloved Toto, a collection of letters written by Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, tells the story of a life and of the great love affair that shaped it. From 1833 until her death half a century later, Drouet wrote to Hugo twice daily on average, resulting in thousands of letters. The 186 translated here—most appearing in English for the first time—offer insights into nineteenth-century French culture as well as an insider's look at the character, behavior, working habits, and day-to-day life of France's most monumental man of letters.
Preface to the French Edition
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Introduction

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1830s
Letters 1Ð40
Notes
1840s
Letters 41Ð77
Notes
1850s
Letters 78Ð130
Notes
1860s
Letters 131Ð166
Notes
1870s
Letters 167Ð182
Notes
1880s
Letters 183Ð186
Notes

Glossary
Note on the French Edition
List of Sources
Works Cited

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Diaries

History of Europe

France

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791482711
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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My Beloved Toto

SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation

Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor

My Beloved Toto

Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833–1882

Juliette Drouet

Translated and with an introduction, additional notes, and glossary by VICTORIA TIETZE LARSON

French Edition edited and annotated by Evelyn Blewer

with a preface by Jean Gaudon

State University of New York Press

Originally published in French asLettres à Victor Hugo, 1833–1882(Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert et Silène-Har/Po, 1985). Revised, with correspondence from Victor Hugo, asLettres à Victor Hugo: Correspondance, 1833–1882, Lettres à Juliette Drouet: Correspondance, 1833–1883; Correspondence, 1833–1883 suivi deLe Livre de l’anniversaire,2 vols. (Paris: Fayard, 2001). ©2001 Librairie Arthème Fayard.

Cover image: Lithograph of Mlle Juliette (1832) by Alphonse-Léon Nöel. ©Photothèque des Musées de la Ville de Paris/Andréani.

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Drouet, Juliette, 1806–1883. [Lettres à Victor Hugo, 1833–1882. English] My beloved Toto: letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 1833–1882/ Juliette Drouet; translated by Victoria Tietze Larson; edited and annotated by Evelyn Blewer; with a preface by Jean Gaudon; with an introduction, additional notes, and glossary by Victoria Tietze Larson. p. cm. — (SUNY series, Women Writers in Translation) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6571-3 (alk. paper) 1. Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885—Correspondence. 2. Drouet, Juliette, 1806–1883—Correspondence. 3. Authors, French—19th century—Correspondence. 4. Actors—France—Correspondence. I. Title:My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo,1833–1882.II. Tietze Larson, Victoria, 1954– III. Blewer, Evelyn. IV. Title. V. Series.

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I live to love you, and I love you to live. —Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 4 September 1853

You are my life, and you will be my eternity. —Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet, 21 May 1875

Roofline of Juliette Drouet’s house Hauteville Féerie in Guernsey. (Photo taken by the translator with kind permission of Richard and Elizabeth Soar).

Preface to the French Edition

Abbreviations

Introduction

Letters 1830s Letters 1–40 Notes 1840s Letters 41–77 Notes 1850s Letters 78–130 Notes 1860s Letters 131–67 Notes 1870s Letters 168–82 Notes 1880s Letters 183–6 Notes

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Contents

45 45 47 71 81 83 106 117 119 152 163 165 187 197 199 206 211 213 215

Glossary Note on the French Edition List of Sources Works Cited Index

viii

My Beloved Toto

217 229 231 233 237

Preface to the French Edition

The trite version of Juliette Drouet’s relationship with Victor Hugo endlessly rehashed by pseudohistorical and simplistic biographies is, alas, only too famil-iar to us. She called him “my Toto.” Every day, and often two or three times, she wrote four pages to him in her cook’s handwriting to tell him that she loved him. It was, in any case, always the same letter—to read one is to read them all! He liked this because he was incredibly vain. He had cloistered her in a cheap little apartment that she was not allowed to leave without him. She was jealous. He deceived her shamefully. I trust Mme Drouet’s shade will forgive this allusion to sanctimonious biographers who take the liberty of treating her with condescension and com-passion. She had slight regard for “this dubious light of pity” (13 July 1851) and would have detested being pitied by muckrakers of any kind, charitable or not. Not being one to mince her words, she would certainly have had some sharp things to say about them. When Victor Hugo became Julienne Gauvain’s lover during the rehears-als ofLucrèce Borgia, she was not yet twenty-seven years old. In the theater she went by the name of “Mlle Juliette.” In the world outside she was “Juliette Drouet,” having taken the surname of a military uncle who had adopted her at a very young age. She spelled her name “Droüet” with a dieresis (testimony perhaps to a regional pronunciation), which Hugo usually observed but which has been dropped by later generations. She would be called“Madame”Drouet when she was an old woman, very beautiful and digniﬁed, and continued to be so called for a long time after her death. Jean Hugo, a hundred years later, still occasionally referred to her in this way.

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