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HUGO Léopold (1773-1828) général, père de Victor Hugo.
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HUGO Léopold (1773-1828) general, father of Victor Hugo.
L.A.S. "Le Général Hugo", Blois April 28, 1820, to Étienne-Claude DELVINCOURT, Dean of the Faculty of Law in Paris| 2 pages in-4, addressed.
Questions from Victor and Eugène Hugo's father about the seriousness of his sons' studies.
"For the past two years, I have been paying my young sons Eugène and Victor a pension to study law at the University of Paris, but I have never been able to learn from them whether they follow their courses with accuracy and some distinction. I don't even know if a literary enterprise [the review Le Conservateur littéraire] which the newspapers alone have told me about, and of whose motives one of them has made the most touching and deceptive praise (since I regularly pay another pension to the person [his ex-wife Sophie Trébuchet, mother of his sons], for whose alleged support this enterprise would take place)| I don't know, I say, if the enterprise of which I speak has not entirely torn my sons away from their studies. Would you be so kind, Monsieur le Doyen, as to let me know the number of registrations already taken and those still to be taken by them, as well as your opinion on the manner in which they are preparing to undergo the first examinations which will take place"...
Provenance: Noilly collection. - Bibliothèque de Louis Barthou (II, 1935, n° 1046-9).
L.A.S. "Le Général Hugo", Blois April 28, 1820, to Étienne-Claude DELVINCOURT, Dean of the Faculty of Law in Paris| 2 pages in-4, addressed.
Questions from Victor and Eugène Hugo's father about the seriousness of his sons' studies.
"For the past two years, I have been paying my young sons Eugène and Victor a pension to study law at the University of Paris, but I have never been able to learn from them whether they follow their courses with accuracy and some distinction. I don't even know if a literary enterprise [the review Le Conservateur littéraire] which the newspapers alone have told me about, and of whose motives one of them has made the most touching and deceptive praise (since I regularly pay another pension to the person [his ex-wife Sophie Trébuchet, mother of his sons], for whose alleged support this enterprise would take place)| I don't know, I say, if the enterprise of which I speak has not entirely torn my sons away from their studies. Would you be so kind, Monsieur le Doyen, as to let me know the number of registrations already taken and those still to be taken by them, as well as your opinion on the manner in which they are preparing to undergo the first examinations which will take place"...
Provenance: Noilly collection. - Bibliothèque de Louis Barthou (II, 1935, n° 1046-9).