[90] This is an allusion to a journey Juliette and Victor Hugo had just made, the account of which had been published in Alpes et Pyrénées.
[91] Probably Ulrich Guttinguer.
[92] A bronze medal representing Victor Hugo, after the medallion by David d’Angers.
[93] This letter was written at Auteuil, where Juliette was living, with her dying daughter, in a house belonging to the sculptor, Pradier. Victor Hugo visited her there nearly every day.
[94] The doctor chosen by Pradier.
[95] Juliette’s own doctor.
[96] Victor Hugo was then a candidate for the Assemblée Nationale.
[97] Victor Hugo was to make a speech that day on La Misère, vide Actes et Paroles, Avant l’Éxil.
[98] Mdlle. Rachel. Arsène Houssaye, who had recently been appointed Director of the Comédie Française, had just introduced Victor Hugo to the great tragedian.
[99] A speech on deportation. Vide Actes et paroles, Avant l’Éxil.