The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-13
HUGO,s INSANE DAUGHrER.
The Story Confirmed by tho latest A<lvices
from Paris.
Nav York World.


from Paris.
The story of Adele Hugo, daughter of Victor
/ Hugo, and Of her sad adventures in this country
and the Barbadoes was recently printed in the
World. According to this story Adele Hugo,
when young girl, made the acquaintance OF an
English officer named Pinson, while visiting Brus-
sells, and the two having fallen in love at first
| sight were secretly married Pinson promised
that he would make her his wife publicly Ia due
time, ard started for London, leaving
her with her parents. The secret marriage, &C
cording to some accounts, was only a mock cere-
mony, and Miss Hugo was simply deceived and
betrayed. Having informed her mother of the
affair." they both fastened to London, but found
their arrival in that city that Pinson had left
with his regiment, which had been ordered to
| Halifax. Miss Hugo returned to the continent
f! with her mother, but soon afterwards left home
from thence made her way to Hall
fax. She arrived in time to prevent
the marriage of her false lover with the
daughter of Mr. johnson, Prime Minister of
Nova Scotia. She remained in Halifax three
years, during which time Lieutenant Pinson re-
pudiated her. but did not dare deny the truth of
the story of her wrongs His regiment being
ordered to the Barbados Miss Hugo followed
him thither. Her father sent her an allowance
of a hundred dollars a month. and more when
she required it, The memory of her life in Hal
flax and the Barbados is still fresh In the minds
of the inhabitants. One narrator, referring
to her sojourn In the latter place, thus describes
her.
I'm her rare lucid moments she has been
heard to say: If he had not abandoned me
should not have lost my reason Sic found
herself left without resources, and in her dis
tress she appealed to her illustrious father. The
help he sent she placed upon the carpet and
told the trades people to help themselves. The
first comers took all, whereupon the old
negress servant advised her to write
again to her father In the inter
val poverty and distress were endured,
which intensified the mania, and finally
the poet sent for her to come home Her IN
sanity is mild and harmless She can reason
well and her memory is good, but suddenly,
while at the table. she will put her food IN her
| pocket Her dress is that of young girl; her
| walk is very peculiar; she fills her pockets with
host OF things which she picks up out Of the
| road in her daily promenade, and one day she
collects the pebbles in her path, which she re-
| places in her next walk. She is proud of her
| fathers reputation, and knows his works by
| heart"
| His story bore so many elements of improba'
| bility that he has been accepted as the produc-
| ton of some fanciful romancer. This view APP
! peared all the more likely mention has
! been made of Adele in the various biographies
| of Hugo, or in his own Memories" and the
| poet himself, was never known to speak of her
| A dispatch from Halifax represents Miss Hugo
| as being in New York lunatic asylum at pres
| ent This is erroneous. Miss hugo Is at pres
| ent confined III an asylum near Paris.
The Paris Figaro of May % says, apropos of
the Hugo family: when the children of the
| poet are referred to, mention is made only of
| those that are dead. His youngest daughter is
| forgotten, the only one living, Mile Adele Hugo
This unhappy lady will never hear of her faith
er's death. She has lost her reason. Since 1872
! she has been at Saint Mande, In lille Rivets
| great asylum. She is now fifty-three years old
| Her father accustomed to mount the omni-
bus in the mornings quite often, and go out to
see her. In spite of her Madness she never
| failed to recognize him, She would sit on his
knees and beg him to take her home with him,
| but would insist that he should take all her
| companions with her.
| Mime. Rvet had thought it advisable to con-
ceal from the poor creature the death of her
father. Unless she is expressly ordered to the
| contrary, which she certainly will not be, she
| will always leave her under the impression that
her father is still living. When Miss Hugo now
asks why her father does not come to see her
| any more Nine. Rivet answers, He was here
only yesterday, and he is so busy that he cannot
come out every day. AS one Of the character
| istics of Miss Hugos loss of mind is that she be-
lieves everything that is told her, she then goes
] away contented"
LIE Ganlois of the same date. referring to the
| poets family. says: -Four children were born
from his marriage with Mile. Foucher, of whom
| only one daughter survives, Adele, the youngest.
| Everyone knows the tragic end of the eldest
| daughter, Leopordine who married Nj. Vacquerie,
brother of the poet of that name, and who was
drowned with him near V1lequler. Adele hugo,
the goddaughter of Sainte- Beuve, is an inmate
of an insane asylum since 1872 She was married
| to an English officer. Her name was never
mentioned in the home of her illustrious father.
During his latter years it CHANGED that Victor
Hugo said one day to of our friends who
| was congratulating him ON his glorious destiny,
! that his life far from happy, that his cup of
sorrows was full and exceedingly bitter; and,
after enumerating the graves of his children and
friends, strewn along his life way, he alluded to
the sad lot of his youngest child, Adele saying,
| in broken voice, That is the greatest of all my