[110] Victor Hugo’s drawings. He was giving them away indiscriminately to his friends, and Juliette was jealous.

[111] Probably one of the poems commemorating the catastrophe of Villequier. They were collected and republished in Les Contemplations.

[112] Charles Hugo had lost his eldest son, Georges. He gave the same Christian name to the second, who, with Petite Jeanne, figures in L’Art d’être Grand-père.

[113] Madame Victor Hugo had just died.

[114] François Victor Hugo had just been given up by the doctors. His slow agony lasted eleven months.

[115] François Victor Hugo died in the course of the day.

[116] The anniversary of the death of Claire.

[117] The removal from Hauteville Féerie.

[118] Victor Hugo was to make a speech at the funeral of Madame Louis Blanc.

[119] A. Vacquerie and family.