Juliette DROUET sends all her love to her beloved Victor HUGO. 1851.

Juliette DROUET (1806-1883).

Autograph letter signed to Victor Hugo.

Four pages in-8°.

August 4, 1851. Monday morning 8 a.m.

“I want you to be happy, I want to try to never be anything but a sweet and honest memory for you. »

Magnificent loving letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo.

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“ Hello dear beloved , hello , I should stay on this hello in which I have put all my soul and not risk myself further for fear of staying on the road and stumbling on some bad thoughts, forgetting myself in some dangerous stops from which all my courage cannot extricate me with honor. However, I need to reach your heart no matter what route and when I have to tear my soul with all the brambles of jealousy .

My Victor, I believe that I am finally reaching supreme healing. The desire I have to spare you in your health, in your patience, in your kindness and in your devotion gives me courage and confidence that my reason alone could not give me. I see you exhausting yourself in all kinds of efforts to persuade me that you love me and that you have always loved me.

Without trying to understand a phenomenon that depends on my intelligence, I believe in it because before any explanation I want you to have neither worries nor remorse about me. I want you to heal, I want you to be happy, I want to try to never be anything but a sweet and honest and one that is so little embarrassing that you can keep it all your life.

My poor beloved, I don't know what I wrote to you because my thoughts and my sensations are more fleeting than in dreams. The word started ends in another order of ideas. The smile rises from my lips to my eyes to wet them. The painful complaint comes out of my chest in a long cry of love, hope and joy …”