Juliette Drouet; The Lonely Life of Hugo’s Devoted Mistress
![Juliette Drouet, circa 1850](https://i0.wp.com/casdinteret.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Focus-image-Juliette-by-Charles-Voillemot.jpg?resize=250%2C150&ssl=1)
Two weeks ago, I wrote about a love letter that Victor Hugo wrote to his mistress, Juliette Drouet, shortly after fleeing France to live in exile. In that post, I remarked that over the course of their impressive 50-year relationship, Juliette penned roughly 20,000 letters to the storied author. It’s…