Adele Hugo (1830-1915) was the daughter of a very famous author who gave life to literary characters that are loved even today, Victor Hugo (1802-1885). He was very versatile as he wrote in several genres, but today he is best known for his novels, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables":
One of his daughters, Adele, met a weird - and sad - fate when she decided to turn her back on the world, so to speak. Her father was famous for his special gift of communication through his works, but she stopped communicating altogether after experiencing an unhappy love affair.
In 1850 she was found in a miserable condition in New York and as she didn't seem to understand questions about her identity, her health, and so on she was hospitalized for amnesia. However, somehow it was found out that she was a daughter of Victor Hugo who had been seduced and then abandoned by the English soldier Albert Pinson. Alone in a foreign country with nothing to sustain herself with she, very understandably, was in shock. Also she, as a woman, felt humiliated which may be the reason why she decided never to communicate again after returning to France: She most likely didn't want to discuss what had happened, not even with her father. For 65 years she kept silent, never looking for another love.
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