Les Misérables
Victor Hugo (1862)
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Complete Table of Contents

Volume I, Fantine

BOOK FIRST. AN UPRIGHT MAN
I. M. Myriel
II. M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome.
III. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop.
IV. Works corresponding to Words.
V. Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long
VI. Who guarded his House for him
VII. Cravatte
VIII. Philosophy after Drinking.
IX. The Brother as depicted by the Sister
X. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
XI. A Restriction.
XII. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
XIII. What he believed
XIV. What he thought
BOOK SECOND. THE FALL
I. The Evening of a Day of Walking
II. Prudence counseled to Wisdom
III. The Heroism of Passive Obedience
IV. Details concerning the Cheese Dairies of Pontarlier
V. Tranquility
VI. Jean Valjean
VII. The Interior of Despair.
VIII. Billows and Shadows.
IX. New Troubles
X. The Man aroused.
XI. What he does
XII. The Bishop works.
XIII. Little Gervais
BOOK THIRD. THE YEAR 1817
I. The Year
II. A Double Quartette.
III. Four and Four
IV. Tholomyès is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
V. At Bombardas.
VI. A Chapter in which they adore Each Other
VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyès
VIII. The Death of a Horse
IX. A Merry End to Mirth
BOOK FOURTH. TO ENTRUST IS SOMETIMES TO ABANDON
I. One Mother meets Another Mother
II. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
III. The Lark
BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT
I. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
II. Madeleine
III. Sums deposited with Laffitte
IV. M. Madeleine in Mourning
V. Vague Flashes on the Horizon
VI. Father Fauchelevent
VII. Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris
VIII. Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality
IX. Madame Victurnien's Success
X. Result of the Success
XI. Christus nos Liberavit.
XII. M. Bamatabois's Inactivity.
XIII. The Solution of Some Questions connected with the
Municipal Police.
BOOK SIXTH. JAVERT
I. The Beginning of Rest
II. How Jean can become Champ
BOOK SEVENTH. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
I. Sister Simplice
II. The Shrewdness of Master Scaufflaire.
III. A Tempest in a Brain
IV. Fo assumed by Suffering during Sleep
V. Clogs in the Wheels
VI. Sister Simplice put to the Proof
VII. The Traveller Arrives and Provides for His Return
VIII. Admission by Favor
IX. A Place for Arriving at Convictions
X. The System of Denegations
XI. Champmathieu more and more Astonished
BOOK EIGHTH. COUNTER-STROKE
I. In What Mirror M. Madeleine Looks at his Hair
II. Fantine Happy
III. Javert Satisfied.
IV. Authority Resumes Its Sway.
V. A Fitting Tomb

Volume II, Cosette

BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO
I. What You Meet in Coming from Nivelles
II. Hougomont
III. The Eighteenth of June, 1815
IV. A
V. The Quid Obscurum of Battles.
VI. Four o'clock in the Afternoon
VII. Napoleon in a Good Humor.
VIII. The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
IX. The Unlooked For
X. The Plateau of Mont Saint Jean.
XI. Sad Guide to Napoleon; Good Guide for Bulow.
XII. The Guard
XIII. The Catastrophe
XIV. The Last Square
XV. Cambronne
XVI. Quot Libras in Duce?
XVII. Must We Approve Waterloo?
XVIII. Recrudescence of Divine Right
XIX. The Field of Battle at Night
BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION
I. Number 24601 Becomes Number 9430
II. In Which a Couple of Lines Will Be Read Which Came, Perhaps, from the Evil One
III. Showing that the Chain of the Iron Ring Must Needs Have Undergone a Certain Preparation to Be Thus Broken by on Blow of the Hammer
BOOK THIRD. FULFILLENT OF THE PROMISE TO THE DEPARTED
I. The Water Question at Montfermeil
II. Two Portraits Completed [1]
III. Men must have Wine and Horses Water
IV. A Doll Enters Upon the Scene
V. The Little One All Alone
VI. Which Perhaps Proves the Intelligence of Boulatruelle [2]
VII. Cosette Side by Side with the Unknown in the Dark
VIII. The Inconvenience of Entertaining a Poor Man Who is Perhaps Rich
IX. Thénardier Manoeuvring
X. Who Seeks the Best May Find the Worst
XI. Number 9430 Comes up Again, and Cosette Draws It
BOOK FOURTH. THE OLD GORBEAU HOUSE
I. Master Gorbeau
II. A Nest for Owl and Wren
III. Two Misfortunes Mingled Make Happiness
IV. What the Landlady Discovered
V. A Five Franc Piece Falling on the Floor Makes a Noise
BOOK FIFTH. A DARK CHASE NEEDS A SILENT HOUND
I. The Zigzags of Strategy
II. It Is Fortunate That Vehicles Can Cross the Bridge of Austerlitz
III. See the Plan of Paris of 1727 [3]
IV. Groping for Escape
V. Which Would Be Impossible Were the Streets Lighted with Gas [4]
VI. Commencement of an Enigma
VII. The Enigma Continues
VIII. The Enigma Redoubles
IX. The Man with the Bell
X. In Which Is Explained How Javert Lost the Game
BOOK SIXTH. PETIT PICPUS
I. Petite Rue Picpus, No. 62
II. The Obedience of Martin Verga [5]
III. Severities [Austerities]
IV. Gaieties
V. Distractions
VI. The Little Convent
VII. A Few Outlines in This Shade [6]
VIII. Post Corda Lapides.
IX. A Century under a Guimp
X. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
XI. End of the PetitPicpus [7]
BOOK SEVENTH. PARENTHESIS [8]
I. The Convent as an Abstract Idea
II. The Convent as a Historical Fact
III. Upon What Conditions We Can Respect the Past
IV. The Convent from the Light of Principle
V. Prayer.
VI. The Absolute Excellence of Prayer
VII. Precautions to be Taken in Censure
VIII. Faith—Law
BOOK EIGHTH. CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHAT IS GIVEN THEM
I. Which Treats Of The Manner of Entering The Convent
II. Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
III. Mother Innocent
IV. In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Appearance of Having Read Austin Castillejo
V. It is Not Enough to Be a Drunkard to Be Immortal [9]
VI. In the Narrow House [10]
VII. In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose Your Card
VIII. Successful Examination
IX. The Close [Cloistered]

Volume III, Marius

BOOK FIRST. PARIS ATOMISED[11]
I. Parvalus
II. Some of his Private Marks
III. He is Agreeable
IV. He May Be Useful
V. His Frontiers
VI. A Scrap of History
VII. The Gamin Will Have his Place in the Classifications of India [12]
VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Late King [13]
IX. The Ancient Soul of Gaul
X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo [14]
XI. Ridicule and Reign [15]
XII. The Future Latent in the People [16]
XIII. Little Gavroche
BOOK SECOND. THE GREAT BOURGEOIS
I. Ninety Years Old and Thirty-two Teeth [17]
II. Like Master, Like Dwelling
III. Luke Esprit [Luc Esprit Gillenormand]
IV. An Inspiring Aspirant
V. Basque and Nicolette
VI. In Which We See La Magnon and Her Two Little Ones
VII. Rule—Never Receive Anybody Except in the Evening [18]
VIII. Two Do Not Make a Pair
BOOK THIRD. THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON
I. An Ancient Salon [19]
II. One of the Red Specters of That Time [20]
III. Requiescant [21]
IV. End of the Brigand [22]
V. The Utility of Going to Mass, to Become a Revolutionary [23]
VI. What It Is to Have Met a Churchwarden [24]
VII. Some Petticoat [25]
VIII. Marble against Granite [26]
BOOK FOURTH. THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC
I. A Group Which Almost Became Historic [27]
II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
III. Astonishments of Marius [28]
IV. The Back Room of the Café Musain
V. Enlargement of Horizon [29]	582
VI. Res Augusta
BOOK FIFTH. THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE
I. Marius Needy
II. Marius Poor
III. Marius a Man
IV. M. Mabeuf [30]
V. Poverty a Good Neighbor of Misery
VI. The Supplanter [31]	601
BOOK SIXTH. THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS	605
I. The Nickname: Mode of Formation of Family Names [32]	605
II. Lux Facta Est [33]	607
III. Effect of the Spring [34]	609
IV. Commencement of a Great Distemper [35]	610
V. Sundry Thunderbolts Fall upon Ma'am Bougon	612
VI. Taken Prisoner [36]	613
VII. Adventures of the Letter U Abandoned to Conjunctures	615
VIII. Even the Invalides May Be Lucky [37]	617
IX. Eclipse	618
BOOK SEVENTH. PATRON MINETTE	621
I. The Mines and Miners [38]	621
II. The Lowest Depth [39]	623
III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse [40]	624
IV. Composition of the Band [41]	626
BOOK EIGHTH. THE NOXIOUS POOR	629
I. Marius, Looking for a Girl with a Hat, Meets a Man with a Cap	629
II. A Waif	630
III. Quadrifons [42]	632
IV. A Rose in Misery	636
V. The Judas of Providence [43]	642
VI. The Wild Man in his Lair	644
VII. Strategy and Tactics	647
VIII. The Sunbeam in the Hole	650
IX. Jondrette Weeps Almost	652
X. Price of Public Cabriolets: Two Francs an Hour	655
XI. Offer of Service by Misery to Grief [Wretchedness]	658
XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five Franc Piece	660
XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabantur Orare Pater Nester	665
XIV. In which a Police Officer Gives a Lawyer Two Fisticuffs	667
XV. Jondrette Makes his Purchases	670
XVI. In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832	672
XVII. Use of Marius' Five Franc Piece	675
XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs Face Each Other	679
XIX. The Distractions of Dark Corners	680
XX. The Ambuscade [Trap]	683
XXI. The Victims Should Always be Arrested First [44]	703
XXII. The Little One Who Cried in Part Second [Volume II]	707
Volume IV, Saint Denis
	711
BOOK FIRST. A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY [45]
I. Well Cut [46]	711
II. Badly Sewed [47]	715
III. Louis Philippe	718
IV. Crevices under the Foundation	724
V. Facts from Which History Springs and Which History Ignores	729
VI. Enjolras and his Lieutenants	739
BOOK SECOND. EPONINE	743
I. The Field of the Lake	743
II. Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons [48]	747
III.An Apparition to Father Mabeuf	751
IV. An Apparition to Marius	754
BOOK THIRD. THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET	759
I. The House with a Secret [49]	759
II. Jean Valjean as a National Guard	762
III. Folios ac Frondibus [50]	765
IV. Change of Grating [Gate]	767
V. The Rose Discovers That She Is an Engine of War [51]	771
VI. The Battle Commences [52]	775
VII. To Sadness, Sadness and a Half	778 [53]
VIII. The Chain [54]	782
BOOK FOURTH. AID FROM BELOW MAY BE AID FROM ABOVE	791
I. Wound without, Cure Within	791
II. Mother Plutarque Is Not Embarrassed on the Explanation of a Phenomenon [55]	793
BOOK FIFTH. THE END OF WHICH IS UNLIKE THE BEGINNING	800
I. Solitude and the Barracks	800
II. Fears of Cosette	801
III. Enriched by the Commentaries of Toussaint	804
IV. A Heart under a Stone [56]	806
V. Cosette after the Letter	810
VI The Old Are Made to Go Out When Convenient	812
BOOK SIXTH. LITTLE GAVROCHE	815
I. The Malevolent Trick of the Wind	815
II. In Which Little Gavroche Takes Advantage of Napoleon the Great [57]	817
III. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Escape	837
BOOK SEVENTH. ARGOT [SLANG]	849
I. Origin	849
II. Roots	854
III. Argot Which Weeps and Argot Which Laughs [58]	861
IV. The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope [59]	865
BOOK EIGHTH. ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS	869
I. Sunshine	869
II. The Stupefaction of Complete Happiness	873
III. Shadow Commences	875
IV. A Cab Rolls in English and Yelps in Argot	878
V. Things of the Night	884
VI. Marius Becomes So Real as to Give Cosette His Address	885
VII. The Old Heart and the Young Heart in Presence	890
BOOK NINTH. WHERE ARE THEY GOING?	901
I. Jean Valjean	901
II. Marius	902
III. M. Mabeuf [60]	904
BOOK TENTH. JUNE 5^th, 1832	908
I. The Surface of the Question	908
II. The Bottom of the Question [61]	911
III. A Burial; Opportunity for Re-birth	915
IV. The Ebullitions of Former Times [62]	920
V. Originality of Paris	924 [63]
BOOK ELEVENTH. THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE	927
I. Some Insight into the Origin of Gavroche's Poetry—Influence of an Academician upon That Poetry	927
II. Gavroche on the March	929
III. Just Indignation of a Barber	932
IV. The Child Wonders at the Old Man	933
V. The Old Man	935
VI. Recruits	937
BOOK TWELFTH. CORINTH [64]	939
I. History of Corinth from Its Foundation [65]	939
II. Preliminary Gaity	943
III. Night Begins to Gather over Grantaire	951
IV. Attempt at Consolation upon the Widow Hucheloup	953
V. Preparations	956
VI. While Waiting [66]	958
VII. The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes [67]	961
VIII. Several Interrogation Points concerning One Le Cabuc, Who Perhaps Was Not Le Cabuc	968
BOOK THIRTEENTH. MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW	968
I. From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier SaintDenis	968
II. Paris—An Owl's View of Paris [68]	970
III. The Extreme Limit	972
BOOK FOURTEENTH. THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR	978
I. The Flag: First Act	978
II. The Flag: Second Act	980
III. Gavroche Would Have Done Better To Accept Enjolras' Carbine	983
IV. The Kegl of Powder	984
V. End of Jean Prouvaire’s Rhyme	986
VI. The Agony of Death after the Agony of Life	987
VII. Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances	991
BOOK FIFTEENTH. THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARME	995
I. Blotter, Babbler	995
II. The Gamin an Enemy of Light	1002
III. While Cosette and Toussaint Sleep	1005
IV. The Excess of Gavroche's Zeal	1006

Volume V, Jean Valjean

BOOK FIRST. WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS	1013
I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple [69]	1013
II. What Is to Be Done in the Abyss But to Talk [70]	1019
III. Light and Darkness	1022
IV. Five Less, One More	1023
V. What Horizon Is Visible from the Top of the Barricade	1029
VI. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic	1032
VII. The Situation Grows Serious	1033
VIII. The Gunners Produce a Serious Impression	1037
IX. Use of That Old Poacher Skill and That Infallible Shot Which Influenced the Conviction of 1796	1039
X. Dawn	1041
XI. The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills Nobody	1043
XII. Disorder a Partisan of Order	1045
XIII. Gleams Which Pass	1047
XIV. In Which Will Be Found the Name of Enjolras' Mistress	1049
XV. Gavroche Outside	1051
XVI. How Brother Becomes a Father	1053
XVII. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat	1061
XVIII. The Vulture Becomes Prey	1062
XIX. Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge	1065
XX. The Dead Are Right and the Living Are Not Wrong [71]	1067
XXI. The Heroes	1074
XXII. Foot to Foot	1078
XXIII. Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk [72]	1080
XXIV. Prisoner	1083
BOOK SECOND. THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN	1086
I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea	1086
II. The Ancient History of the Sewer	1089
III. Bruneseau	1091
IV. Details Ignored	1094
V. Present Progress	1097
VI. Future Progress	1098
BOOK THIRD. MIRE BUT SOUL	1102
I. The Cloaca and Its Surprises	1102
II. Explanation	1107
III. The Man Spun	1108
IV. He Also Bears His Cross	1112
V. For Sand as Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Perfidy [73]	1115
VI. The Fontis	1118
VII. Sometimes We Get Aground When We Expect to Get Ashore	1120
VIII. The Torn Coat-Tail	1122
IX. Marius Seems to Be Dead to One Who is a Good Judge	1126
X. Return of the Prodigal Son—of His Life	1130
XI Commotion in the Absolute	1131
XII. The Grandfather	1133
BOOK FOURTH. JAVERT OFF THE TRACK	1138
I. Javert off the Track	1138
BOOK FIFTH. GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER	1148
I. In Which the Tree with Plate of Zinc Plaster Once More	1148
II. Marius, Escaping from Civil War, Prepares for Domestic War	1151
III. Marius Attacks	1151
IV. Mademoiselle Gillenormand at Last Thinks It not Improper That Monsieur Fauchelevent Should Come With Something Under His Arm	1157
V. Deposit Your Money Rather in Some Forest Rather than with Some Notary	1162
VI. The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each in His Own Way, That Cosette May Be Happy	1163
VII. The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness	1169
VIII. Two Men Impossible to Find	1171
BOOK SIXTH. THE WHITE NIGHT	1176
I. The 16th of February, 1883 [74]	1176
II. Jean Valjean Still Has His Arm in a Sling	1184
III. The Inseparable	1191
IV. The Immortal Jecur [Liver]	1193
BOOK SEVENTH. THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP	1198
I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven	1198
II. The Obscurities Which a Revelation May Contain	1212
BOOK EIGHTH. THE TWILIGHT WANE	1219
I. The Basement Room	1219
II. Other Steps Backward	1223
III. They Remember the Garden of the Rue Plumet [75]	1225
IV. Attraction and Extinction	1229
BOOK NINTH. SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN	1231
I. Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy	1231
II. The Last Flickerings of the Exhausted Lamp	1233
III. A Pen Is Heavy to Him Who Lifted Fauchelevent's Cart	1234
IV. A Bottle of Ink Which Serves Only to Whiten	1236
V. Night Behind Which Is Dawn	1252
VI. The Grass Hides and Rain Blots Out	1260

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[1]The Thénardiers up close

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[2]Louis XVIII described

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[3]Map of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry; the location of The Petit Picpus then and the changes wrought during the Revolution: buildings pulled down, new streets, and depositories for rubbish there

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[4] Urban amenities: gas lights, darkness

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[5]Bernardines of the Obedience of Martin Verga, attached to Citeaux (not Clairvaux), like the Benedictines. [This seems mistaken]

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[6]Mother Superior, Mlle de Blemeur = Mother Innocent; others; rule of silence; the sounding of the bell, “A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress and which was heard all over the house, indicated by its variations, which were a kind of acoustic telegraph, all the acts of material life to be performed, and called to the locutory, if need were, this or that inhabitant of the house. Each person and each thing had a special ring. The prioress had one and one; the subprioress one and two; Six-five announced the recitation, so that the pupils never said going to recitation, but going to six-five. Four-four was Madame de Genlis’ signal. It was heard very often. It is the four deuce, said the uncharitable. Nineteen strokes announced a great event. It was the opening of the close door, a fearful iron plate bristling with bolts which turned upon its hinges only before the archbishop. Page 436.

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[7]The Convent symbolizes the declining importance of traditional religion; Joseph De Maistre denouncer of Voltaire. “As to convents, they present a complex question. A question of civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects them.” 442

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[8]A digression on the history of religious orders.

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[9]Gravediggers and the burial of Mother Crucifixion;

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[10]The feigned burial of Jean Valjean

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[11]“Paris has a child and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.” 503

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[12]Gamin coined in 1834 in a work entitled Claude Gueux. “To be present at executions is a positive duty.” 510

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[13]Louis Philippe

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[14]Gamin summed up via a comparison with the graeulus of Rome. “Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. . . .” “All that can be found anywhere can be found in Paris.” 513; buildings mentioned—Hotel de Ville, Notre Dame, Faubourg St. Antoine, Sorbonne, Panteon etc. Socrates and Diderot. A point by point comparison of the Ancient and the Parisian.

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[15]“Of bounds and limits, Paris has none.” 515 –more allusions.

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[16]The people of Paris; “the mob” of Burke; the true physiognomy of the Parisian race—where to be found

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[17]rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie, Rue de Saintonge of the Gillenormand

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[18]“He was of the eighteenth century, frivolous and great.” 526 He had lived in the Faubourg Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint Sulpice. Retired to the Marais upon retiring from society.

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[19]Frequented several very fine and very noble salons as a bourgeois when he lived in Rue Servandoni [Saint Germain], as he was twice witty . . .529. Decried Napoleon; allusion to Ca ira with new words, string up the Bonapartists. Use Cat’s piece to bring to life. The Old Regime lingers on: ancient people, wrinkled, etc. representation of the reactionaries who remembered pre-1789.

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[20]One of Napoleon’s faithful: Pontmarcey—the foil for the royalist father, Gillenormand. The Great Conflict: the Revolution [and Empire] divided everyone in France. Theme her of the Restoration’s handling of the former Napoleon faithful, reflects Hugo’s own ancestry but in reverse: the Napoleonic General as Father and his Royalist Son.

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[21]More on the Salon of Madame de T. “was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world” 537; the survivors of the Revolution came here: the Marquis de Sass---, secretary of commands to Madame de Berry, et al. including priests. “There was the essence and the quintessence of Parisian Legitimatist society. “Finally, since, in this century, the revolution must make itself felt everywhere, this feudal salon was, as we have said, ruled by a bourgeois. Monsieur Gillenormand reigned there. . . .539 People of renown, even though royalists, were held in quarantine. Ibid. . . .”They were ultra.” 540 Need to bring in the Salons of the glittering 18^th to make this understood.

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[22]Gillenormand retires to the Marais, rue des Filles du Calvaire

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[23]Marius learns of his Colonel Father from from M. Mabeuf, church warden

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[24]Marius’s conversion to bonapartism

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[25]Lt. Théodule and more about his father and Marius goes to his grave at Vernon.

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[26]Marius learns that his father was created a baron by Napoleon.

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[27]“At that period, . . ., something of a revolutionary threll was vaguely felt. Whispers coming from the depths of ’89 and of ’92 were in the air.” 561 “It was like a rising tide . . mixtures: men worshipped at the same time Napoleon and liberty. We are now writing history. These were the mirages of that day.” 561 written after the coup of 1851. Members described in relation to Robespierre, Saint Just, et al.

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[28]Marius introduced at the Café Musain

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[29]Marius learns more about Napoleon—Napoleon and liberty as oxymoron. In Marius long speech he refers to Pascal . . . “what can be more grand? Asked Marius. To be free, said Combeferre. 584. Good candidate for reading in first day of class or second to illustrate the project: find the history IN les miserables!

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[30]A political moderate and indifferent: His political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books . . . neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartists, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.” 596

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[31]Political divisions revealed with the arrival at Gillenormand of his nephew Lt. Théophile, a lancer in the Grand Army. G’s diatribe against radicals, Jacobins, Republicans; to which the silent Théodule finally says: “You are a fool.” 604

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[32]Marius comes of romantic age; notices Cosette in the Luxembourg Gardens

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[33]Same scene a year later: eyes meet

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[34]“This first glace of a soul which does not yet know itself is like the dawn in the sky. 609

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[35]Love sickness

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[36]“The glances of women are like certain apparently peaceful but really formidable machines.” 615

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[37]M. gets jealous

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[38]Introduction to the underworld, the bas fonds. The catacombs. The descending ladder: Luther, Descartes, Voltaire, Condorcet, Robespierre, Marat, Babeuf; Saint Simon, Own, Fourier are there. The third substage of Paris is below all of this.

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[39]The depths of horror; the opposite of Progress, earlier seen in Book IV in the “upper mine,” the great political, revolutionary, and philosophic sap” 623 “Destroy the cave Ignorance, and you destroy the mole Crime.” 624

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[40]A quartet of bandits . . . ruled from 1830 to 1835 over the third-substage of Paris.” 624

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[41]They usually met in the waste grounds near La Salpetriere. The band called Patron-Minette, which means morning just as entre chien et loup means night, and probably came from the hour their work ended. 626

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[42]Thénardier, aka Genflot, man of letters, solicits charity; aka Jondrette

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[43]“She [Eponine] revealed to him an entire and hideous aspect of the darkness.” 642 “there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?” 643 Marius mulling over his encounters with Eponine et al. The hole in the wall was a kind of Judas

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[44]Javert reaapears

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[45]1830 Revolution and build up of dissatisfaction

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[46]The political movements of 1831-1832: one of the most peculiar and most striking periods in history.” 711; the Fall of the Restoration, July Revolution and Monarchy

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[47]But the revolution of 1830 ran aground; “Who stops half way? The bourgeosie.” 717

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[48]crime, punishment, criminals, underworld

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[49]The home of JVJ and Cosette, in the Faubourg Saint Germain, formerly the rue de Blomet; rented in October 1829

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[50]the garden of the house well described, a pleasure garden at one time

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[51]Cosette comes into beauty

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[52]“Cosette, like Marius, “was all ready to take fire.” Destiny brought them together. Courtship, love.

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[53]JVJ jealous and depressed at the appearance of Marius in Cosette’s sentiments

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[54]Out on an early morning walk, the chain makes it horrifying appearace. “Every form of distress was present in this chaos of a cortège.” 787 crime and punishment

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[55]Gavroche cannot rob the old Mabeuf

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[56]long reflections on the nature of love, melancholy, etc.

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[57]Gavroche helps two other gamins; the Great Elephant in which they sleep

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[58]Argot around 1750 becomes a form of resistance—insolent and jovial; reflection on the Revolution and its positive work. Said also to be: The revolutionary sense is a moral sense.” 864

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[59]Hopes for progress, possibly through revolt

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[60]“It’s the émeutes!” 907 Insurrection

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[61]Emeute and insurrection contrasted: one is wrong, the other is right as the war of the few against the hole is an emeute, so the war of the whole against the faction is the insurrection, which is good: likened to August 10^th 1792, but not in 14^th Vendémiare; the Swiss defended the false, Bonaparted defended the true 911

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[62]“Nothing is more extraordinary than the first swarming of an émeute.” 920

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[63]“Nothing is more strange; and this is the peculiar characteristic of the émeutes of Paris, which is not found in any other capital. Two things are requisite for it, the greatness of Paris and its gaiety. It requires the city of Voltaire and of Napoleon.” 925

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[64]The barricade of the rue de la Chanvrerie, “that almost inexpugnable construction . . . 956

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[65]The wineshop called Corinth in the rue de la Chanvrerie, near the Rue Rambuteau, near the major markets, touch the rue Saint Denis at its summit; the little streets run perpendicular to Saint Denis: ‘. . . like blocks of stone in a stone yard, by narrow crevices. . . .obscure, contracted, angular lanes, bordered by ruins eight stories high.” 940 The meeting and rallying place of Courfeyrac et al. 942 A place ripped up and opened wide in 1847, made to disappear under the pavements of the Rue Rambuteau. 942

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[66]the signing of love-rhymes

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[67]infiltration by Javert

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[68]Looking down at the field of the immanent battle

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[69]the barricades of June 1848 recalled, “the grandest street war which history has seen.” 1013. What is was at bottom? “A Revolt of the people against itself.” 1014 Barricade of Saint Antoine described: monstrous; contrasted to the silence of the barricade of the rue du Temple

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[70]The barricade of the rue de la Chanvrerie “was only a rough draft and an embryo ecompared with the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but, for the period, it was formidable.”1019

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[71]Reflection on revolt and revolution at the death throes of the barricade. “. . . our barricade is made of good intentions.” 1071 The story declared: from Hell to Heaven, from injustice to justice . . . .1074

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[72]Enjolras and Grantaire solemnly die as they are shot after laying down their weapons and requesting it, a kind of heroic death and martyrdom that was achieved.

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[73]Sinking sands, sinking sewers

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[74]The wedding of Marius and Cosette

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[75]JVJ learns the Marius has refused to use Cosette’s money, coming as did from JVJ

Complete Table of Contents

BOOK FIRST. AN UPRIGHT MAN

BOOK SECOND. THE FALL

BOOK THIRD. THE YEAR 1817

BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT

BOOK SIXTH. JAVERT

BOOK SEVENTH. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR

BOOK EIGHTH. COUNTER-STROKE

Volume II, Cosette

BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO

BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION

BOOK FOURTH. THE OLD GORBEAU HOUSE

BOOK FIFTH. A DARK CHASE NEEDS A SILENT HOUND

BOOK SIXTH. PETIT PICPUS

BOOK SEVENTH. PARENTHESIS[8]

Volume III, Marius

BOOK EIGHTH. THE NOXIOUS POOR

Volume IV, Saint Denis

BOOK FIRST. A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY[45]

BOOK SECOND. EPONINE

743

BOOK THIRD. THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET

759

BOOK SIXTH. LITTLE GAVROCHE

815

BOOK SEVENTH. ARGOT [SLANG]

849

BOOK EIGHTH. ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS

869

BOOK NINTH. WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

901

BOOK TENTH. JUNE 5th, 1832

908

BOOK TWELFTH. CORINTH[64]

939

BOOK THIRTEENTH. MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW

968

BOOK FOURTEENTH. THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR

978

BOOK FIFTEENTH. THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARME

995

Volume V, Jean Valjean

BOOK FIRST. WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS

1013

BOOK SECOND. THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN

1086

BOOK THIRD. MIRE BUT SOUL

1102

BOOK FOURTH. JAVERT OFF THE TRACK

1138

BOOK FIFTH. GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER

1148

BOOK SIXTH. THE WHITE NIGHT

1176

BOOK SEVENTH. THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP

1198

BOOK EIGHTH. THE TWILIGHT WANE

1219

BOOK NINTH. SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN

1231

BOOK SEVENTH. PARENTHESIS [8]

BOOK FIRST. A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY [45]

BOOK TENTH. JUNE 5^th, 1832

BOOK TWELFTH. CORINTH [64]