A Romantic Love Letter written by Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written February 17, 1836

I love you as the lioness loves her mate. I love you as a passionate woman, ready to yield up her life at your slightest gesture. I love you with the soul and intelligence God has lent his creatures to enable them to appreciate exceptional men like yourself.

That is why, my glorious Victor, at one and the same moment, I can rage, weep, crawl, or stand erect; I bow my head and venerate you.

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Juliette Drouet, French actress to Victor Hugo, French writer. Drouet gave up the stage to devote herself to her adored "Toto" and saved his life during the French Revolution uprisings of 1851.