Editing Victor Hugo (section)

===Other relationships===
====Juliette Drouet====
[[File:Maison de Victor Hugo Juliette Drouet Champmartin 27122012.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Juliette Drouet]]
From February 1833 until her death in 1883, [[Juliette Drouet]] devoted her whole life to Victor Hugo, who never married her even after his wife died in 1868. He took her on his numerous trips and she followed him in exile on [[Guernsey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Victor Hugo's House in Pasaia – European Romanticisms in Association|date=23 April 2020 |url=http://www.euromanticism.org/victor-hugos-house-in-pasaia/|access-date=17 December 2020|language=en}}</ref> There Hugo rented a house for her near [[Hauteville House]], his family home. She wrote some 20,000 letters in which she expressed her passion or vented her jealousy on her womanizing lover.<ref>Guillemin, Henri, ''Hugo'', Seuil, 1978, 191 p. {{ISBN|2020000016}}, p. 55.</ref>
On 25 September 1870 during the [[Siege of Paris (1870–71)|Siege of Paris]] (19 September 1870 – 28 January 1871) Hugo feared the worst. He left his children a note reading as follows:

"J.D.
She saved my life in December 1851. For me she underwent exile. Never has her soul forsaken mine. Let those who have loved me love her. Let those who have loved me respect her.
She is my widow."
V.H.<ref>Seghers, Pierre, ''Victor Hugo visionnaire'', Robert Laffont, 95 p., {{ISBN|2221010442}}, p. 10.</ref>

====Léonie d'Aunet====
For more than seven years, Léonie d'Aunet, who was a married woman, was involved in a love relationship with Hugo. Both were caught in adultery on 5 July 1845. Hugo, who had been a Member of the [[Chamber of Peers (France)|Chamber of Peers]] since April, avoided condemnation whereas his mistress had to spend two months in prison and six in a convent. Many years after their separation, Hugo made a point of supporting her financially.<ref>Hugo, Victor, Choses vues 1849–1885, Gallimard, 1972, 1014 pp., {{ISBN|2070402177}}, p. 857 (17 Sep 1876).</ref>

====Others====
Hugo gave free rein to his libido until a few weeks before his death. He sought a wide variety of women of all ages, be they courtesans, actresses, prostitutes, admirers, servants or revolutionaries like [[Louise Michel]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robb |first=Graham |title=Victor Hugo: A Biography |date=17 May 1999 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |isbn=978-0393318999 |pages=558 |language=en}}</ref> for sexual activity. He systematically reported his casual affairs using his own code, as [[Samuel Pepys]] did, to make sure they would remain secret. For instance, he resorted to Latin abbreviations (''osc.'' for kisses) or to Spanish (''Misma. Mismas cosas'': The same. Same things). Homophones are frequent: ''Seins'' (Breasts) becomes Saint; ''Poële'' (Stove) actually refers to ''Poils'' (Pubic hair). Analogy also enabled him to conceal the real meaning: A woman's ''Suisses'' (Swiss) are her breasts—because Switzerland is renowned for its milk. After a rendezvous with a young woman named ''Laetitia'' he would write ''Joie'' (Happiness) in his diary. If he added ''t.n.'' (''toute nue'') he meant she stripped naked in front of him. The initials ''S.B.'' discovered in November 1875 may refer to [[Sarah Bernhardt]].<ref>Hugo, Victor, ''Choses vues'' 1870–1885, p. 529, {{ISBN|2070361411}}, pp. 371, 521 (n. 1).</ref>