..(Maurois 51)As Victor moved forward through his career as a novelist, poet, and dramatist, his feelings for Adele changed slowly. While working on one of his dramatic pieces, Victor met a young actress by the name of Juliette Drouet. Juliette was far more exotic and dramatic than Adele. Her nature fed Victor’s imagination and inspired his writing. She taught Victor the actress’s proverb (Which he seemed to take to heart. For, later he would take another, less significant, mistress.) "A woman who has one lover is an angel, a woman who has two lovers is a monster, and a woman who has three lovers is a woman" (Robb 181). Juliette referred to herself as Victor’s wife, for that is how she felt toward him. Victor would sign all of his letters to her “Your friend, lover, and father” (Maurois 193). Actually, Victor used the same hopelessly romantic language in writing to Juliette that he once used in his letters to Adele. “You are enchanting!” he says, “I love you more than I have words to tell, my Juliette” (Maurois 378).This behavior, I’m sure, led some to believe that the love Victor and Adele felt in their youth was simply a childish game, but Victor continued to have a very deep and loving relationship with his wife. They still shared a powerful love that could not be broken by Victor’s vile behavior. In fact, during his affair with Juliette Drouet Victor wrote and published Les Miserables, the story that was practically the reflection of his romance with Adele. Victor respected his wife as he had respected his mother. He cherished what she had given him, and he wrote to her a poem entitled, “A toi, toujors a toi.) or “The Poet to His Wife”. In it he refers to her as his “idol in shrine of curtained home.” (Maurois 398) She is his angel, and his idea of everything heavenly and virtuous. That never changed throughout his relationship with Jul...
