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...danger of extreme Romanticism is, as Cervantes showed, that it is apt to seem highly comical-and this is why comedy clings closely to everything that Victor Hugo did. Cold-shouldered by his wife, he chose as his mistress the courtesan Juliette Drouet. In return for his ecstasy, Hugo made Juliette respectable. He confined her to her room (for ten years she was never allowed to leave it except on his arm), and made her sell all her pretty clothes and underwear. "A bowl of food, a kennel and a chain-that is my lot," said Juliette. But she worshiped...
Hugo spent 18 years in Channel Island exile, with his wife, children, and Juliette Drouet (when their combined ages came to 125, Mme. Hugo and Mistress Drouet actually exchanged a few words, eventually became quite good friends). When Napoleon the Little fell, the "prophet of the Republic," white-haired and bursting with emotion, returned to Paris with the more-than-vague hope that the Republic would reciprocate by making him its head. That was not to be. Through the siege of Paris by the Prussians and the bloody uprising of the Commune ("Both sides are mad"), Hugo wrote and loved...
Under the headline: L'AFFAIRE MINOU DROUET: CHILD PRODIGY OR PRODIGIOUS IMPOSTOR? Elle described how Mile...
...Drouet's tales about Minou had failed to check with neighbors, teachers and the parish priest, and how she kept prompting the moppet in the interview. As for Minou, reported Elle, "She does not know the meaning of words used in her poems. Did she write them? If not, did her mother? And if her mother did, did she do it to sublimate her ambition and frustration, for love of glory or love of money...
...week's end, Elle dropped all caution and prepared its coup de grace for this week's issue. Charged Helene Lazareff: "A cruel hoax. Mile. Drouet not only thought up all of Minou's poems but we have evidence that she also wrote them herself, in pseudo-childish handwriting...