Hugo, Valentine
(1887–1968)
Hugo, ValentineHugo, ValentineValentine Hugo (B * CAPÉCURE (BOULOGNE-SUR-MER), 1887 – D † PARIS, 1968) Born Valentine Marie Augustine Gross, painter, poet, and decorator, close friend of Cocteau and the composers of the artist group les Six, on 7 August 1919 she married Jean Hugo (1894–1984), the great-grandson of Victor Hugo. Cocteau and Satie (1866–1925) were the witnesses at their wedding. After her divorce in 1929, she frequented the haunts of the surrealist poets, becoming the mistress of…