Fathers, mothers, whose soul has suffered my suffering,
everything I felt, did you feel it too?

  --Victor Hugo (1802-1885). His beloved eldest daughter Léopoldine and her young husband drowned in the Seine shortly after their marriage. Victor Hugo found out about it in a newspaper while traveling. He never got over her death.

Pères, mères, dont l'âme a souffert ma souffrance,
tout ce que j'éprouvais, l'avez-vous éprouvé?