[60] This letter is not signed. The envelope is addressed: “M. Victor Hugo. A quarter to twelve, midnight. I am going to your house.”
[61] Victor Hugo was then living at 6, Place Royale, in the house which is now the Musée Victor Hugo. Juliette Drouet lived not far away at 4, Rue de Paradis au Marais, which is now one of the sections of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois.
[62] Juliette’s furniture had just been seized, and her landlord was threatening to evict her.
[63] Mlle. Mars, who was rehearsing a part in Angélo, at the Comédie Française.
[64] There are traces of tears all over this letter.
[65] Eugène Hugo, brother of the poet, had just expired. See Number XXIX of Voix Intérieures, à Eugène, Vicomte Hugo.
[66] This is an allusion to the second poem in the Voix Intérieures: “Sunt lacrimæ....”
[67] One of the basins in the park of Versailles.
[68] Victor Hugo had given Juliette a Quintus Curtius in which he had formerly studied Latin. On the fly-leaf he had written a few words of dedication.
[69] A critic.