One of the main works of the French writer of the 19th century is the book, but popularity came to him much earlier, after the publication of the first novel, Notre Dame Cathedral. Victor Hugo is not like other authors of the era of romanticism, in his work there is an interest in social topics and problems of social differentiation.
The main thing about the work
One of the main themes is the fate of people who were rejected by society against their will. The volume of the work is considerable, depending on the publisher, the number of volumes can be two or three. The book is distinguished by contrasts between philosophical reflections, lyrical digressions, dramatic plot and historical facts.
Victor Hugo draws a parallel between two completely different images - a convict and a righteous man. The purpose of the author is not to show readers the differences between them, but to highlight in this way a single human essence.
The main characters of the novel "Les Miserables"
The protagonist is Jean Valjean, a former convict who ended up behind bars for stealing bread for his hungry nephews. From the first pages, the author raises the question of the fault of the state in Valjean's misconduct. Hugo believes that a person shows his essence only in difficult life situations.
Another main character is the orphan Cosette, who was the victim of inappropriate and inhuman treatment by her adoptive parents.
The main character Fantine is suspected of prostitution. Because of bad rumors, the girl was expelled from her place of work, society began to despise her and her little daughter. The opinions of the people changed Fantine forever. Now she has no other choice but to go outside.
Issues
In his work, Victor Hugo reveals an interesting idea: a society that despises a person for his past only dooms him to even greater torment compared to those that he managed to overcome.
Main issue.
The novel "Les Miserables" is one of the most famous works of the titan of French literature, Victor Hugo. Archetypal images of Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, Cosette, Fantine, Gavroche have become integral parts of the world cultural heritage.
Despite the fact that Les Misérables was published a century and a half ago, in 1862, interest in the work does not subside. The novel successfully survives regular publications and generates new works of art. In particular, thirteen adaptations were made based on the novel. One of the first screen versions delighted the public in 1913. It was a four-episode silent film produced in France. It was created by the then popular director Albert Capellani.
The last film version of the cult work was released in 2012. The musical was directed by Tom Hooper. Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean), Russell Crowe (Inspector Javert), Anne Hathaway (Fantine), Amanda Seyfried (Cosette) and others took part in the project.
Let's remember the plot of this great epic about people who were once rejected by life and forever bound by fate.
Mercy Healing: Bishop Miriel
France. 1815. Former convict Jean Valjean is released after nineteen years in prison. Exactly this many years ago, he stole a loaf of bread for his widowed sister Jeanne and her seven children. Valjean was sentenced to four years of hard labor, and for repeated attempts to escape, twelve more years of imprisonment were added.
He spent almost two decades in the company of notorious criminals, and changed his name to number 24601. Now Valjean is free, but the so-called “yellow passport”, which is issued to all former convicts, is preventing him from starting a new life. He is driven from everywhere, despised everywhere. He is an outcast. Valjean has only one way out - to enter the dark path of crime, which is the only one open to him.
Fate brings Valjean to the town of Digne. After vain attempts to get at least somewhere for the night, he comes to the house of the local bishop Miriel. Surprisingly, the dignitary treats the suspicious stranger very cordially, treats him to dinner and orders the traveler to be placed in one of the guest rooms. The habits of the underworld take over, and despite the hospitality of the owner, Valjean cannot resist the theft of silver candlesticks. First, he wants to kill the bishop himself, but at the last moment, an unknown force stops the attacker and he flees the scene of the crime.
The next day, a man in beggarly clothes with stolen silver candlesticks is apprehended and brought before Miriel. Now Valjean regrets that he showed weakness and did not kill the main witness - now the priest will give evidence that will send him to hard labor until the end of his days. What was Valjean's surprise when Miriel brought out two more candlesticks, telling the guards that his guest had forgotten them in a hurry, who, by an absurd accident, was arrested.
Start over again
When Valjean and Miriel are alone, the bishop calls on the man to start a new life. May this start-up capital in the form of candlesticks help him become a man again.
Valjean, who until now has seen only evil, betrayal, injustice, greed, at first cannot understand such a disinterested manifestation of mercy. According to an old habit, he catches the boy on the street and takes his money. Coming out of his stupor, Valjean suddenly realizes that he was given a chance, which falls to a rare stumbler. He will use the gift of the bishop for good and begin a new life.
Frenemies: Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert
Three years later. Town of Montreil. Previously, this place was practically no different from those miserable French cities in which poverty and unemployment reign. But one day a wealthy philanthropist appeared in the city, who built a factory for the production of artificial jet. Montreil changed before our eyes, its inhabitants began to work and glorify their benefactor Uncle Madeleine, that was the name of the mysterious philanthropist. Despite his wealth, he was fair. Kindness and modesty, so the residents unanimously elected him mayor of Montreil.
Only one person disliked Madeleine - Inspector Javert. Fanatically devoted to his work, Javert strictly followed the letter of the law. He did not recognize halftones - only black and white. Once a stumbled person can no longer be justified in the eyes of the inspector. The law is immutable and indestructible.
The bloodhound has long been searching for the former convict Jean Valjean, who robbed a boy on the street three years ago. Cunning Javert forces Madeleine to publicly admit that he is the same Jean Valjean. The former mayor is immediately cited for life imprisonment in the Toulon galleys. Risking his life, Valjean escapes from the ship that was transporting the prisoners. The risk was worth it, because he still had one unfulfilled promise.
Lost Life: The Story of Fantine
A beautiful girl named Fantine worked at the Montreal factory. Inexperienced and trusting, she innocently fell in love with Felix Tolomen. The poor thing did not even suspect that a handsome rake from a rich family would never marry a commoner. Soon Fantine gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, she named her charming baby Cosette. The girl was forced to give the baby to the innkeepers Thenardier to raise, the mother sent all the money she earned to her daughter, not even suspecting that the baby did not get anything.
When the factory found out about Fantine's illegitimate child, she was immediately fired. A woman finds herself on the street without a livelihood and a roof over her head. Worried about the well-being of her daughter, Fantine decides on desperate deeds - she sells her luxurious hair and snow-white teeth, and then becomes a prostitute.
All this time, Valjean - the owner of the very factory where Fantine worked - is in the dark about the fate of his ward. He meets Fantine much later, when she dies of tuberculosis - withered, broken, fallen. Valjean curses himself for his fatal negligence. He will no longer be able to help Fantine - her life is hopelessly ruined - however, it is still possible to arrange the happiness of little Cosette. Valjean swears to the dying Fantine that he will not abandon her daughter. This was the promise for which Jean Valjean survived and escaped from the ship of convicts.
Beam of light in the realm of darkness: the story of Cosette
The fugitive convict Jean Valjean is unable to adopt Cosette. He steals the girl from the vile Thenardiers and goes on the run with her. Fortunately, Valjean managed to save a considerable fortune from the time when he was the owner of the factory. Money decides a lot, and Valjean starts a new life again. He arranges Cosette in a monastery boarding school and is called her father. Thus begins a quiet family life of two outcasts who accidentally found each other.
Years have passed. Little Cosette has turned into a beautiful girl. And soon, along with tender daughter love, a new unknown feeling for a young man named Marius Pontmercy is born in Cosette's heart. Once meeting during a walk in the garden, Cosette and Marius could no longer forget each other. However, on the way to joint happiness, the lovers had to overcome many obstacles - a revolutionary uprising, Valjean's paternal jealousy, the persecution of Inspector Javert, who, even years later, did not forget about his sworn enemy Jean Valjean.
In 1815, Charles-Francois Miriel, nicknamed Bienvenue for his good deeds, was the bishop of the city of Digne. This unusual man in his youth had many love affairs and led a secular life - but the Revolution turned everything around. Mr. Miriel left for Italy, from where he returned as a priest. At the whim of Napoleon, the old parish priest occupies the bishop's throne. He begins his pastoral activity by giving up the beautiful building of the episcopal palace to the local hospital, and he himself moves to a cramped little house. He distributes his considerable salary entirely to the poor. Both the rich and the poor knock at the bishop's door: some come for alms, others bring it. This holy man enjoys universal respect - he is granted to heal and forgive.
In the early days of October 1815, a dusty traveler enters Digne - a stocky, dense man in his prime. His beggarly clothes and sullen weather-beaten face make a repulsive impression. First of all, he goes to the city hall, and then tries to get somewhere for the night. But he is driven from everywhere, although he is ready to pay with a full-fledged coin. This man's name is Jean Valjean. He spent nineteen years in hard labor because he once stole a loaf of bread for the seven hungry children of his widowed sister. Embittered, he turned into a wild hunted beast - with his "yellow" passport, there is no place for him in this world. Finally, a woman, taking pity on him, advises him to go to the bishop. After listening to the gloomy confession of a convict, Monseigneur Bienvenue orders to feed him in the guest room. In the middle of the night, Jean Valjean wakes up: he is haunted by six silver cutlery - the only wealth of the bishop, kept in the master bedroom. Valjean tiptoes over to the bishop's bed, breaks open the silver locker and wants to smash the good shepherd's head with a massive candlestick, but some incomprehensible force holds him back. And he flees through the window.
In the morning, the gendarmes bring the fugitive to the bishop - this suspicious person was detained with clearly stolen silver. Monseigneur can send Valjean to hard labor for life. Instead, Mr. Miriel brings out two silver candlesticks, which yesterday's guest allegedly forgot. The last parting word of the bishop is to use the gift to become an honest person. The shocked convict hastily leaves the city. In his hardened soul, a complex painful work is going on. At sunset, he automatically takes away a coin of forty sous from a boy he meets. Only when the baby runs away crying bitterly does Valjean realize the meaning of his act: he sinks heavily to the ground and weeps bitterly - for the first time in nineteen years.
In 1818, the town of Montreil flourished, and it owes this to one person: three years ago, an unknown person settled here, who managed to improve the traditional local craft - the manufacture of artificial jet. Uncle Madeleine not only became rich himself, but also helped many others to make a fortune. Until recently, unemployment was rampant in the city - now everyone has forgotten about the need. Uncle Madeleine was distinguished by extraordinary modesty - neither the deputy chair nor the Order of the Legion of Honor attracted him at all. But in 1820 he had to become mayor: a simple old woman shamed him, saying that it was a shame to back down if there was an opportunity to do a good deed. And Uncle Madeleine turned into Mister Madeleine. Everyone was in awe of him, and only the police agent Javert looked at him with extreme suspicion. In the soul of this man there was only room for two feelings taken to extremes - respect for authority and hatred for rebellion. A judge in his eyes could never make a mistake, and a criminal could never correct himself. He himself was blameless to the point of disgust. Surveillance was the meaning of his life.
One day, Javert repentantly informs the mayor that he must go to the neighboring city of Arras - the former convict Jean Valjean, who robbed the boy immediately after his release, will be judged there. Javert had previously thought that Jean Valjean was hiding under the guise of Monsieur Madeleine - but that was a mistake. Having released Javert, the mayor falls into deep thought, and then leaves the city. At the trial in Arras, the defendant stubbornly refuses to recognize himself as Jean Valjean and claims that his name is Uncle Chanmatier and there is no fault for him. The judge is preparing to pronounce a guilty verdict, but then an unknown person stands up and announces that he is Jean Valjean, and the defendant must be released. Word quickly spreads that the venerable mayor, Monsieur Madeleine, has turned out to be an escaped convict. Javert triumphs - he deftly arranged the snares for the criminal.
The jury decided to exile Valjean to the galleys in Toulon for life. Once on the Orion ship, he saves the life of a sailor who has fallen off the yard, and then throws himself into the sea from a dizzying height. The Toulon newspapers report that the convict Jean Valjean has drowned. However, after some time, he is announced in the town of Montfermeil. A vow brings him here. During his time as mayor, he was overly strict with a woman who gave birth to an illegitimate child, and repented, remembering the merciful Bishop Miriel. Before her death, Fantine asks him to take care of her girl Cosette, whom she had to give to the innkeepers Thenardier. The Thénardiers embodied cunning and malice, combined in marriage. Each of them tortured the girl in his own way: she was beaten and forced to work half to death - and the wife was to blame for this; in winter she went barefoot and in rags - the reason for this was her husband. Taking Cosette, Jean Valjean settles on the most remote outskirts of Paris. He taught the little girl to read and write and did not stop her from playing as much as she could - she became the meaning of the life of a former convict who kept the money earned in the production of jet. But Inspector Javert haunts him here too. He arranges a night raid: Jean Valjean is saved by a miracle, imperceptibly jumping over a blank wall into the garden - it turned out to be a convent. Cosette is taken to a monastery boarding school, and her foster father becomes a gardener's assistant.
The respectable bourgeois, Mr. Gillenormand, lives with his grandson, who bears a different surname - the boy's name is Marius Pontmercy. Marius's mother died, and he never saw his father: Mr. Gillenormand called his son-in-law "the Loire robber", since the imperial troops were taken to the Loire to disband. Georges Pontmercy reached the rank of colonel and became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He almost died in the Battle of Waterloo - he was carried out from the battlefield by a marauder who was picking out the pockets of the wounded and killed. Marius learns all this from the dying message of his father, who turns for him into a titanic figure. The former royalist becomes an ardent admirer of the emperor and begins to almost hate his grandfather. Marius leaves home with a scandal - he has to live in extreme poverty, almost in poverty, but he feels free and independent. During daily walks in the Luxembourg Gardens, the young man notices a handsome old man, who is always accompanied by a girl of about fifteen. Marius passionately falls in love with a stranger, but natural shyness prevents him from getting to know her. The old man, noticing Marius's close attention to his companion, moves out of the apartment and stops appearing in the garden. It seems to the unfortunate young man that he has lost his beloved forever. But one day he hears a familiar voice behind the wall - where the large family of Jondrets lives. Looking through the gap, he sees an old man from the Luxembourg Gardens - he promises to bring money in the evening. Obviously, Jondrette has the ability to blackmail him: an interested Marius overhears how the villain conspires with members of the Cock Hour gang - they want to set up a trap for the old man to take everything from him. Marius notifies the police. Inspector Javert thanks him for his help and hands him pistols just in case. Before the eyes of the young man, a terrible scene is played out - the innkeeper Thenardier, who took refuge under the name of Jondrette, tracked down Jean Valjean. Marius is ready to intervene, but then the policemen, led by Javert, burst into the room. While the inspector deals with the bandits, Jean Valjean jumps out the window - only then Javert realizes that he has missed a much larger game.
In 1832, Paris was in turmoil. Friends of Marius rave about revolutionary ideas, but the young man is occupied with something else - he continues to stubbornly search for the girl from the Luxembourg Gardens. Finally, happiness smiled at him. With the help of one of Thenardier's daughters, the young man finds Cosette and confesses his love for her. It turned out that Cosette had also been in love with Marius for a long time. Jean Valjean suspects nothing. Most of all, the former convict is concerned that Thenardier is clearly watching their quarter. Coming June 4th. An uprising breaks out in the city - barricades are being built everywhere. Marius cannot leave his comrades. Alarmed, Cosette wants to send him a message, and Jean Valjean finally opens his eyes: his baby has grown up and found love. Despair and jealousy strangle the old convict, and he goes to the barricade, which is defended by young republicans and Marius. Javert in disguise falls into their hands - the detective is seized, and Jean Valjean again meets his sworn enemy. He has every opportunity to deal with the man who caused him so much harm, but the noble convict prefers to release the policeman. Meanwhile, government troops are advancing: the defenders of the barricade are dying one after another - among them is the glorious little boy Gavroche, a true Parisian tomboy. Marius's collarbone was shattered by a rifle shot - he finds himself in the complete power of Jean Valjean.
The old convict carries Marius from the battlefield on his shoulders. Punishers are prowling everywhere, and Valjean descends underground - into terrible sewers. After much ordeal, he gets to the surface only to find himself face to face with Javert. The detective allows Valjean to take Marius to his grandfather and stop by to say goodbye to Cosette - this is not at all like the ruthless Javert. Great was Valjean's astonishment when he realized that the policeman had let him go. Meanwhile, for Javert himself, the most tragic moment in his life comes: for the first time he broke the law and set the criminal free! Unable to resolve the contradiction between duty and compassion, Javert freezes on the bridge - and then a dull splash is heard.
Marius has been between life and death for a long time. In the end, youth wins. The young man finally meets Cosette and their love blossoms. They receive the blessing of Jean Valjean and M. Gillenormand, who, in joy, completely forgave his grandson. On February 16, 1833, the wedding took place. Valjean confesses to Marius that he is an escaped convict. Young Pontmercy is horrified. Nothing should overshadow Cosette's happiness, so the criminal should gradually disappear from her life - after all, he is just a foster father. At first, Cosette is somewhat surprised, and then gets used to the increasingly infrequent visits of her former patron. Soon the old man stopped coming at all, and the girl forgot about him. And Jean Valjean began to wither and fade away: the porter invited a doctor to him, but he only shrugged it off - this man, apparently, had lost his most precious creature, and no medicine would help here. Marius, on the other hand, believes that the convict deserves such an attitude - undoubtedly, it was he who robbed Mr. Madeleine and killed the defenseless Javert, who saved him from the bandits. And then the greedy Thenardier reveals all the secrets: Jean Valjean is neither a thief nor a murderer. Moreover: it was he who carried Marius from the barricade. The young man generously pays the vile innkeeper - and not only for the truth about Valjean. Once upon a time, a scoundrel did a good deed, rummaging through the pockets of the wounded and killed - the man he saved was called Georges Pontmercy. Marius and Cosette go to Jean Valjean to beg for forgiveness. The old convict dies happy - his beloved children took his last breath. A young couple commissions a touching epitaph for the sufferer's grave.
In a foreign land, during the period of emigration from the Bonapartist republic, during the heyday of his creative powers, Victor Hugo created the greatest late-romantic canvas - Les Misérables. By this, the writer summed up a significant part of his author's path. This work and in the modern world is his most famous creation.
Intention
Even in his youth, the writer had an idea for a novel that described the life of the lower class, the injustice and prejudices of society. Hugo asked one of his friends to collect information about the life and life of convicts. Most likely, interest in the convicts was awakened because of the story of a runaway convict who became a colonel, who was later arrested in the capital of France.
The city prefect told Hugo about a relative of the bishop who welcomed a freed convict to his house. Reborn under the influence of a clergyman, he, in turn, became a military orderly, who later died at Waterloo. In the twenty-third chapter of the novel Les Miserables, Victor Hugo placed the story of a convict who, from his first days at liberty, faced cruelty, prejudice and hostility from those around him. In many ways, this story resembled the story of the protagonist of the work. And so, when the author had already imagined the outlines of the novel and wrote a preface to it, he was distracted by the theater. But all the same, the idea of the book did not leave Hugo and continued to mature in his head, enriched with new impressions and great interest in social issues and problems. In some works of that time, you can find the outlines of the future novel Les Misérables.
The history of writing the historical novel
The writer is so passionate about his work that he even tries to “lengthen” his working day by rescheduling lunch for the evening. But such hard work was interrupted first by the events of the revolution, and then by the coup. As a result, the writing of the book "Les Misérables" Victor Hugo finishes already in a foreign land, in the capital of Belgium.
Editions of the work
In comparison with the final text, the first edition contained much fewer author's digressions and episodes. It consisted of four parts.
Fifteen years after starting work on the book, finally titled Les Misérables, Hugo decided to revise the novel and give full freedom to his lyrical prose. Due to such author's digressions, the work has increased in volume. Also there are branches from the main plot line.
While in Brussels, in two weeks the writer created chapters in the novel that described the secret republican society with the created ideal image of the priest of the revolution, as well as the battle of Waterloo.
As for the final edition of the book, it can be said that the author's democratic views had deepened significantly by that time.
The Idea of the Novel and the Truth of Principles
Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables" is historical, since it is precisely such a scale, according to the author, that is necessary to raise questions of human existence.
The main idea of the plan is moral progress as the main component of social transformations. This is what permeates the entire mature work of the writer.
We observe how the protagonist of Victor Hugo ("Les Misérables") morally improves. That is why the author called his work "the epic of the soul."
Social problems and the romantic idea of the struggle between good and evil move into an ethical plane. According to the writer, there are two justices in life: one is the highest humanity based on the laws of the Christian religion (bishop), and the other is determined by the laws of jurisprudence (inspector).
But, despite this, the novel that Victor Hugo wrote (“Les Misérables”), no matter how many volumes it contains (the work consists of three volumes), is fanned with a halo of a romantic struggle between good and evil, mercy and life-giving love. This is what is at the core of the whole novel.
The novel "Les Miserables". Historical meaning
The historical significance of this work is that here the writer takes under protection the persecuted and oppressed people and the outcast, suffering person, and also denounces the hypocrisy, cruelty, lies and heartlessness of the bourgeois world.
That is why it is impossible to remain indifferent when reading one of the best works written by Victor Hugo - Les Misérables. Reviews about him were also left by the great Russian classics. In particular, Tolstoy, who is a great domestic humanist, called this book the best French novel. And Dostoevsky re-read the work, taking advantage of a two-day arrest for violating the conditions of censorship.
The images of the heroes of the book are an integral part of the world cultural heritage. Interest in them has not subsided so far. It is impossible to remain indifferent to the problems that Victor Marie Hugo raised in his book. Les Misérables is still going through more and more publications and film adaptations, the last of which was released about three years ago. Famous Hollywood actors took part in the film-musical.
The famous novel by Victor Hugo tells about the fate of the people of the social bottom of France in the early 19th century. The protagonist of the story is Jean Valjean. He is an escaped convict who achieves significant success in society, but he is pursued by the gendarme Javert, who believes that no criminal should escape justice with impunity.
As a result of the indifference once shown by Valjean when he was a successful factory director, one of his employees dies. Valjean takes the girl Cosette into his upbringing and hides with her in Paris. After a while, Cosette grows up, she falls in love with the student Marius, who is associated with the revolutionary circle.
Javert, meanwhile, continues his persistent search for Valjean, and the daughter and father move regularly, so the lovers lose sight of each other. A student uprising begins, Marius is wounded, Jean Valjean finds him and tries to save the young man. At this time, they meet Javert, who, overcoming his own convictions, allows them to leave. When Marius wakes up, he learns that most of his friends have died. The bitterness of loss is replaced by the joy of reunion with Cosette.
The novel clearly reflects Hugo's idea of a constant change of good and evil beginnings in the human soul. The writer, through his work, expresses a firm conviction in the obligatory victory of the bright genius of the soul over his dark impulses and inclinations.
Read the summary of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The fugitive convict Jean Valjean wanders into the house of the bishop of the city of Dinya. This once honest man was sentenced to hard work for stealing a piece of bread for his sick sister. His heart was hardened by adversity, but the sudden meekness and nobility of the priest make Valjean feel the power of good again. He repents of his nefarious intention and makes a promise to lead an honest life.
A few years later, the young beauty Fantine succumbs to the persuasion of a courteous student and allows herself to be seduced. Beloved leaves her with a child. Fantine gives the girl Cozzette to be raised by the Tenradier couple, who run a tavern in Paris, and she herself returns to her native town of Montreil-Primorsky.
Over the past decade, Fantine's homeland has become a prosperous industrial center thanks to the efforts of a man who calls himself Uncle Madeleine. He opened a glass factory, taking care of the poor and working people. One day, Javert, who once served as a warden at hard labor, sees Madeleine save a poor man who has fallen under a cart, showing great strength, which he saw only once in the escaped prisoner Jean Valjean.
Meanwhile, Fantine loses her place at the Madeleine factory - the manager drives her away after learning that she has a child out of wedlock. Fearing for the future of a girl who will not have a livelihood, Fantine gradually comes to the point that she becomes a prostitute. Sick Fantine is arrested on the street. Having learned the history of her disasters, Madeleine orders to transfer the unfortunate woman to the hospital.
At the bedside of the dying Javert overtakes and exposes Jean Valjean, but he flees, having managed to make a promise to Fantine to take care of her daughter.
Having taken Cosette from Thenardier, who took away all the money sent by her mother from the child, Jean Valjean takes the girl to Paris. Here he gets a job as a gardener in the cloister of the monastery, where the next few happy years pass.
Marius, the grandson of an elderly bourgeois, begins to demonstrate anti-monarchist views, his grandfather denies him an inheritance. Marius finds his new friends and support in the "Friends of the ABC" society. This is a revolutionary circle led by Enjolras, but Marius is closest to the cynical drunkard Courfeyrac.
One day in the Luxembourg Gardens, Marius notices an elderly man with a girl he falls in love with. Judging by her views - mutually. But, after a few weeks, the girl stops coming to the park and Marius goes crazy with love.
Some time later, he finds his beloved thanks to Thenardier, who accidentally notices Cosette on the street and recognizes her. They begin to meet secretly, but one day Jean Valjean again has to flee from Javert, and Marius again loses the happiness he has already found. At this time, a student rebellion begins, Marius joins him, seeking death. He asks the street child Gavroche to find the girl and give her a letter with love confessions. The message falls into the hands of Valjean, who thus learns for the first time of the connection between Cosette and Marius.
The student uprising did not gain popular support, a small group of revolutionaries is surrounded by the police. Going on the assault, the gendarmes kill little Gavroche, Marius is wounded. He is rescued by Jean Valjean, carrying him through the sewer paths. Students are encircled, they are shot on the spot.
Valjean, with Marius in her arms, meets Javert, but lets her victim go. The rescued Marius is on the mend, but the memory that his wife's adoptive father was a criminal has been delayed in his mind. After the wedding with Cosette, he reluctantly communicates with Valjean, Cosette also begins to shun her father at the behest of her husband. Valjean begins to suffer from loneliness. One day, the whole story of the runaway convict is revealed to Marius, and he wants to make amends with repentance. Happy from the return of his daughter, Valjean dies in the arms of the young.
Picture or drawing Les Misérables
A young beggar, who is also a hunchback, meets a nobleman Palitsyn near the church. He asks to work with him and introduces himself as Vadim.
