Eponine's orgins

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Sorry if this isn't allowed- the connection's pretty tenuous, but I found it interesting , so I thought I'd share.

I was flipping through some books at Chapters, and came across one called Great Canadian Love Stories. I read it and, much to my surprise, found a story about Adele Hugo, Victor's daughter. Adele apparently fell for a soldier, Albert Pinon, and repeatedly ran away to try and be closer to him. She eventually succeeded, and went all the way to the Maritimes, where he was stationed. She then managed to break him up with his fiance by putting an announcement in the papers that they were married, tried to tell a minister that they had been engaged (they never had been) so that he would force Albert to marry her, tried to get a lawyer to drag him into court and force him to marry her and, among other things, tried to hire a hypnotist to hypnotize him into marrying her. Needless to say, none of it worked. He was transferred to Barbados (probably trying to get away from her)and she followed him there as well. Her family eventually dragged her back home, and stuck her into an insane asylum. I'm sure Pinon was relieved. 

So while I was reading this, it struck me that this story- the obsession angle- reminded me of Eponine. Maybe Hugo got some inspiration from his daughter's illness, and put it in his novel? Of course, this is pure speculation; I don't know if the timeline matches up. (I didn't buy it, so I don't have the dates) Still, it's an interesting parallel, if nothing else.