Note 18 — Chapter III · “LA TRISTESSE D’OLYMPIO”
Theodora Davidson translation
It belongs now to Madame Veuve Bigot. On the left exterior wall a Versailles society has thought fit to place an inscription recording that Victor Hugo once inhabited the house. Four lines of La Tristesse d’Olympio follow. It would have been more correct to bracket the name of Juliette Drouet with that of the poet, for after all it was not he who lived there, but she.