She became an orphan at the age of eight, when her mother died on August 14, , three weeks after giving birth to her eighth child, who did not survive. Her father, in financial trouble, was forced to accept a mission in the Indian Ocean from shipowners in Brest.
He auctioned off some of the couple's property in order to pay for the equipment of the ship "The Count of Grasse", and then embarked. This episode remained in her memory for the rest of her life. On November 15, , they were married in Paris. The couple then moved to the Maison-Commune in Paris. Their first child, Abel Hugo , was born on November 15, Sophie moved to rue de Clichy and decided to hide La Horie, who was suspected of going against the government.
These cases were clarified, but La Horie was forced to sell his properties including Saint-Just and to go into exile in America, which he refused. He opposed the idea of his family joining him due to his fears that his wife would discover his affair. They arrived on February 7, and settled in an old convent , rue des Feuillantines. The chapel there was used as a hiding place for Victor Fanneau de La Horie. The children, at first, did not know of his presence, but soon discovered it.
She hoped to return to Paris as soon as possible for news of her lover. One day she received an amount of 4, francs from Paris she suspected La Horie of having sent it and decided to leave at once; she took advantage of the escort of Marshal Bellune to cross Spain without trouble. In Paris, she regularly visited her lover, incarcerated in Vincennes. She paid attention to the plot of General Malet, who announced the death of Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia.
But the plot was unveiled and the conspirators, of whom he was part, were imprisoned in the prison of the Abbey; they were all shot in the plain of Grenelle on October 29, She entrusted Eugene and Victor to the Foucher family and left with Abel. When Sophie returned to Paris, she discovered her apartment under seal and therefore asked the Fouchers for hospitality. Sophie regularly visited her sons at their college. She recovered the custody of her children in , when the civil court of the Seine pronounced the separation of the bodies and property of the Hugo couple.
