 She married at Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis on 15 February 1843, but they both drowned together only a few months later, when their boat capsized on the Seine in Villequier on 4 September 1843.She was 19 years old and pregnant and she died when her wet, heavy skirts pulled her down, and her husband died trying to save her.This tragic event had a great impact on the work and personality of her father, Victor Hugo.