Editing Victor Hugo (section)

===Family===
[[File:Victor Hugo et ses petits-enfants Georges et Jeanne.jpg|thumb|right|Hugo with his grandchildren [[Jeanne Hugo|Jeanne]] and Georges, 1881]]

====Marriage====
Hugo married [[Adèle Foucher]] in October 1822. Despite their respective affairs, they lived together for nearly 46 years until she died in August 1868. Hugo, who was still banished from France, was unable to attend her funeral in Villequier, where their daughter Léopoldine was buried. From 1830 to 1837, Adèle had an affair with [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve|Charles-Augustin Sainte Beuve]], a reviewer and writer.<ref>
Foucher-Hugo Adèle, Victor Hugo raconté par Adèle Hugo, Plon, 1985, 861 p., {{ISBN|2259012884}}, p. 41.</ref>

====Children====
Adèle and Victor Hugo had their first child, Léopold, in 1823, but the boy died in infancy. On 28 August 1824, the couple's second child, [[Léopoldine Hugo|Léopoldine]], was born, followed by [[Charles Hugo (writer)|Charles]] on 4 November 1826, [[François-Victor Hugo|François-Victor]] on 28 October 1828, and [[Adèle Hugo|Adèle]] on 28 July 1830.

Hugo's eldest and favourite daughter, Léopoldine, died in 1843 at the age of 19, shortly after her marriage to Charles Vacquerie. On 4 September, she drowned in the [[Seine]] at [[Villequier]] when the boat she was in overturned. Her young husband died trying to save her. The death left her father devastated; Hugo was travelling at the time, in the south of France, when he first learned about Léopoldine's death from a newspaper that he read in a café.<ref>{{lang|fr|Victor Hugo, tome 1: Je suis une force qui va}} by Max Gallo, pub. {{lang|fr|Broché|italic=no}} (2001)</ref>
[[File:Léopoldine lisant, Adèle Foucher, 1837, dessin, 19,2 x 27 cm , Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris.png|thumb|Léopoldine reading. Drawing by her mother [[Adèle Foucher]], 1837]]
He describes his shock and grief in his famous poem "À Villequier":
{{Verse translation|lang=frm|
Hélas ! vers le passé tournant un œil d'envie,
Sans que rien ici-bas puisse m'en consoler,
Je regarde toujours ce moment de ma vie
Où je l'ai vue ouvrir son aile et s'envoler!

Je verrai cet instant jusqu'à ce que je meure,
L'instant, pleurs superflus !
Où je criai : L'enfant que j'avais tout à l'heure,
Quoi donc ! je ne l'ai plus !
|
Alas! My envious eye, turning toward the past,
Without anything else down here able to console me,
I look continually at that moment of my life
Where I saw her spread her wings and fly away!

I will see that instant until I die,
That instant, nothing beyond!
Where I cried: "The child I had a short time ago,
What! I have her no more!"
}}

He wrote many poems afterward about his daughter's life and death. His most famous poem is "Demain, dès l'aube" (Tomorrow, at Dawn), in which he describes visiting her grave.