The Working Classes in Revolutionary France
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Workers Women Men Life home food family Social Life cafes entertain Occasions marriage births deaths holidays Revolutionaries People sans-culotte Politics revolutions Life faubourges Les Mis marius	Welcome to the world of the Working Classes   This picture depicts a scene from the life of the urban poor. Better caption to come. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables brings us into the world of the working class, but it leaves unaswered as many questions as it answers. What is the image of particular sectors of the working classes that Hugo is trying to convey? In what ways is his image true to reality, and it what ways is it a distortion? In our site we attempt to more fully understand both Hugo's representation of the working class, and the reality of French working class life at the time of Les Miserables.   The Lives of the Working Class Occupations Everyday Life Social Life Special Occasions    The Revolutionary Working Class    Children of the Working Class