Foucher reportedly lost interest in intercourse altogether – but 19th-century Paris had enough brothels to keep Hugo entertained morning, evening and night. He claimed that on their wedding night he and his wife Adèle Foucher had sex nine times. Hugo’s insistent retellings of the story of his own conception might be explained by the fact that the guy was obsessed with sex. Hugo was probably the 19th-century’s most prolific sex addict He also claimed that his mother was a half-wild Amazonian (she was born in Nantes). Hugo (always the storyteller) added his own embellishments: the Celtic sanctuary on the summit became a Roman temple of love and the obscure mountain was transformed into the much more glamorous (and 3,000 ft taller) Mont Blanc. But in May 1801, Major Hugo and his wife were not paying much attention to the view – and in the 1960s, a museum curator decided to mark the spot where Hugo was conceived with an engraved sandstone block. On France’s Mont Donon, you can enjoy spectacular vistas across the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Lookout Point There’s a monument marking the exact spot where Hugo was conceived Ellie Bamber as Cosette in BBC TV’s Les Misérables.
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