Juliette Drouet

Juliette Drouet , from her true name Julienne Gauvain (Ferns, 1806 - Paris, 1883) passed to the posterity to have been the mistress of Victor Hugo during nearly 50 years. Orphan of mother a few months after her birth, of father the following year, it was raised by her uncle, Rene Drouet. It made its schooling in Paris in a religious boarding school. It became towards 1825 the mistress of the sculptor James Pradier, who represented it in the statue symbolizing Strasbourg, Place of the Harmony in Paris. It had with him a girl, Claire.

On the council of Pradier, it began in 1829 a career of actress, initially with Brussels, then in Paris. It at that time took the name of her uncle. Actress without true talent, rather soft beautiful woman, it would point out enough a Anna de Noailles if it had had of it.

It is in 1833, whereas she interpreted the role of the Négroni princess in Lucrèce Borgia which she met Victor Hugo. She gave up her theatrical career then to dedicate her life with her lover, living long years, with her request, cloîtrée at her, leaving only in her company; authorizing victim, without its knowledge, imagery of Épinal of “the eternal female”.

In 1852, it accompanied it in its exile with Jersey, and then in 1855 with Guernesey. She wrote to him throughout her life of the thousands of letters, which testify to a real talent of writing according to Henri Troyat which wrote its biography in 1997.

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