FOOTNOTES:
[1] Her birth-certificate is drawn up in the following terms: “On April 11th, 1806, at 3 p.m. before me, Louis Pinel, mayor of Fougères and registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, Julien Gauvain, tailor, aged twenty-nine, residing at Rue de la Révolution, Fougères, presented a female child, born on the preceding day at 7 a.m., the legitimate daughter of himself and his wife Marie Caretandet; he declared his intention of bestowing upon her the names of Julienne-Joséphine. The said declaration and presentation were made in the presence of François Dorange, sheriff’s officer, aged twenty-five, residing in Fougères, and François Paunier, gardener, aged sixty-eight, residing in Lécousse. This certificate was duly signed by the father and the witnesses, after the same had been read aloud to them. Signed: Julien Gauvain, François Paunier, Dorange, and Louis Pinel.”
[2] She posed, not, as has been stated, and as we ourselves have erroneously printed, for statues in the towns of Lille and Strasburg, but for numerous studies of the head and the nude which Pradier afterwards made use of; thus the features of Julienne may be recognised in almost all the rough studies belonging to the first portion of Pradier’s career, which are exhibited under glass in the museum at Geneva.
[3] The portrait of Victor Hugo by Devéria has often been reproduced. It is popular. Léon Noël’s lithograph is less known. It is to be found either in the Artiste in the course of the year 1832 or in the Musée Victor Hugo. We reproduced it in the Contemporaine of February 25th, 1902.
[4] Victor Hugo, Correspondance. Letter to Sainte-Beuve, August 22nd, 1833.
[5] Victor Hugo, Correspondance. Letter to Sainte-Beuve, July 7th, 1831.
[6] Lettres à la Fiancée.
[7] Under the heading: A Ol. (Olympio) XII.
[8] Théophile Gautier, Portraits contemporains.
[9] Alphonse Karr, Une Heure trop tard.