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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · Public domain text

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Author
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Language
English
Subjects
Historical fiction, Orphans › Fiction, Paris (France) › Fiction, Epic literature, Ex-convicts › Fiction
Length
560,550 words · about 39 h 15 min
Sections
363 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (363)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Preface about 1 min
  3. I. M. MYRIEL about 4 min
  4. II. M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME about 8 min
  5. III. A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP about 3 min
  6. IV. WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS about 12 min
  7. V. MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG about 4 min
  8. VI. WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM about 9 min
  9. VII. CRAVATTE about 5 min
  10. VIII. PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING about 6 min
  11. IX. THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER about 6 min
  12. X. THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT about 20 min
  13. XI. A RESTRICTION about 7 min
  14. XII. THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME about 5 min
  15. XIII. WHAT HE BELIEVED about 6 min
  16. XIV. WHAT HE THOUGHT about 4 min
  17. I. THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING about 18 min
  18. II. PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM about 6 min
  19. III. THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE about 9 min
  20. IV. DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER about 6 min
  21. V. TRANQUILLITY about 2 min
  22. VI. JEAN VALJEAN about 9 min
  23. VII. THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR about 12 min
  24. VIII. BILLOWS AND SHADOWS about 3 min
  25. IX. NEW TROUBLES about 2 min
  26. X. THE MAN AROUSED about 5 min
  27. XI. WHAT HE DOES about 6 min
  28. XII. THE BISHOP WORKS about 5 min
  29. XIII. LITTLE GERVAIS about 14 min
  30. I. THE YEAR 1817 about 9 min
  31. II. A DOUBLE QUARTETTE about 7 min
  32. III. FOUR AND FOUR about 6 min
  33. IV. THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY about 4 min
  34. V. AT BOMBARDA’S about 4 min
  35. VI. A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER about 2 min
  36. VII. THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS about 9 min
  37. VIII. THE DEATH OF A HORSE about 3 min
  38. IX. A MERRY END TO MIRTH about 4 min
  39. I. ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER about 14 min
  40. II. FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES about 3 min
  41. III. THE LARK about 4 min
  42. I. THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS about 2 min
  43. II. MADELEINE about 6 min
  44. III. SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE about 5 min
  45. IV. M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING about 4 min
  46. V. VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON about 9 min
  47. VI. FATHER FAUCHELEVENT about 4 min
  48. VII. FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS about 2 min
  49. VIII. MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY about 4 min
  50. IX. MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS about 4 min
  51. X. RESULT OF THE SUCCESS about 8 min
  52. XI. CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT about 1 min
  53. XII. M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY about 4 min
  54. XIII. THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE about 16 min
  55. I. THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE about 5 min
  56. II. HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP about 14 min
  57. I. SISTER SIMPLICE about 5 min
  58. II. THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE about 7 min
  59. III. A TEMPEST IN A SKULL about 32 min
  60. IV. FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP about 5 min
  61. V. HINDRANCES about 17 min
  62. VI. SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF about 10 min
  63. VII. THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE about 7 min
  64. VIII. AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR about 5 min
  65. IX. A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION about 11 min
  66. X. THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS about 12 min
  67. XI. CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED about 7 min
  68. I. IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR about 4 min
  69. II. FANTINE HAPPY about 6 min
  70. III. JAVERT SATISFIED about 6 min
  71. IV. AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS about 6 min
  72. V. A SUITABLE TOMB about 9 min
  73. I. WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES about 3 min
  74. II. HOUGOMONT about 11 min
  75. III. THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 about 4 min
  76. IV. A about 3 min
  77. V. THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES about 5 min
  78. VI. FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON about 4 min
  79. VII. NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR about 9 min
  80. VIII. THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE about 4 min
  81. IX. THE UNEXPECTED about 6 min
  82. X. THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN about 7 min
  83. XI. A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW about 2 min
  84. XII. THE GUARD about 2 min
  85. XIII. THE CATASTROPHE about 4 min
  86. XIV. THE LAST SQUARE about 2 min
  87. XV. CAMBRONNE about 4 min
  88. XVI. QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? about 8 min
  89. XVII. IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? about 3 min
  90. XVIII. A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT about 4 min
  91. XIX. THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT about 10 min
  92. I. NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 about 25 min
  93. I. THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL about 6 min
  94. II. TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS about 8 min
  95. III. MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER about 3 min
  96. IV. ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL about 2 min
  97. V. THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE about 9 min
  98. VI. WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE about 8 min
  99. VII. COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK about 3 min
  100. VIII. THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN about 26 min
  101. IX. THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES about 12 min
  102. X. HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE about 8 min
  103. XI. NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY about 2 min
  104. I. MASTER GORBEAU about 10 min
  105. II. A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER about 2 min
  106. III. TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE about 6 min
  107. IV. THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT about 3 min
  108. V. A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT about 5 min
  109. I. THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY about 6 min
  110. II. IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES about 2 min
  111. III. TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 about 5 min
  112. IV. THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT about 4 min
  113. V. WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS about 6 min
  114. VI. THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA about 4 min
  115. VII. CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA about 3 min
  116. VIII. THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS about 3 min
  117. IX. THE MAN WITH THE BELL about 5 min
  118. X. WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT about 14 min
  119. I. NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS about 6 min
  120. II. THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA about 11 min
  121. III. AUSTERITIES about 2 min
  122. IV. GAYETIES about 5 min
  123. V. DISTRACTIONS about 9 min
  124. VI. THE LITTLE CONVENT about 4 min
  125. VII. SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS about 3 min
  126. VIII. POST CORDA LAPIDES about 3 min
  127. IX. A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE about 3 min
  128. X. ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION about 2 min
  129. XI. END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS about 3 min
  130. I. THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA about 1 min
  131. II. THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT about 5 min
  132. III. ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST about 4 min
  133. IV. THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES about 2 min
  134. V. PRAYER about 2 min
  135. VI. THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER about 3 min
  136. VII. PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME about 1 min
  137. VIII. FAITH, LAW about 3 min
  138. I. WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT about 12 min
  139. II. FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY about 3 min
  140. III. MOTHER INNOCENTE about 14 min
  141. IV. IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO about 9 min
  142. V. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL about 9 min
  143. VI. BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS about 2 min
  144. VII. IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD about 11 min
  145. VIII. A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY about 5 min
  146. IX. CLOISTERED about 11 min
  147. I. PARVULUS about 1 min
  148. II. SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS about 2 min
  149. III. HE IS AGREEABLE about 2 min
  150. IV. HE MAY BE OF USE about 1 min
  151. V. HIS FRONTIERS about 3 min
  152. VI. A BIT OF HISTORY about 3 min
  153. VII. THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA about 3 min
  154. VIII. IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING about 2 min
  155. IX. THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL about 1 min
  156. X. ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO about 5 min
  157. XI. TO SCOFF, TO REIGN about 4 min
  158. XII. THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE about 1 min
  159. XIII. LITTLE GAVROCHE about 4 min
  160. I. NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH about 3 min
  161. II. LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE about 2 min
  162. III. LUC-ESPRIT about 1 min
  163. IV. A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT about 1 min
  164. V. BASQUE AND NICOLETTE about 2 min
  165. VI. IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN about 3 min
  166. VII. RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING about 1 min
  167. VIII. TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR about 3 min
  168. I. AN ANCIENT SALON about 5 min
  169. II. ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH about 11 min
  170. III. REQUIESCANT about 12 min
  171. IV. END OF THE BRIGAND about 5 min
  172. V. THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST about 3 min
  173. VI. THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN about 11 min
  174. VII. SOME PETTICOAT about 7 min
  175. VIII. MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE about 8 min
  176. I. A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC about 22 min
  177. II. BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET about 5 min
  178. III. MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS about 3 min
  179. IV. THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN about 12 min
  180. V. ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON about 6 min
  181. VI. RES ANGUSTA about 4 min
  182. I. MARIUS INDIGENT about 4 min
  183. II. MARIUS POOR about 5 min
  184. III. MARIUS GROWN UP about 8 min
  185. IV. M. MABEUF about 7 min
  186. V. POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY about 4 min
  187. VI. THE SUBSTITUTE about 7 min
  188. I. THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES about 5 min
  189. II. LUX FACTA EST about 4 min
  190. III. EFFECT OF THE SPRING about 2 min
  191. IV. BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY about 5 min
  192. V. DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON about 2 min
  193. VI. TAKEN PRISONER about 4 min
  194. VII. ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES about 3 min
  195. VIII. THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY about 3 min
  196. IX. ECLIPSE about 3 min
  197. I. MINES AND MINERS about 4 min
  198. II. THE LOWEST DEPTHS about 2 min
  199. III. BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE about 4 min
  200. IV. COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE about 4 min
  201. I. MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP about 3 min
  202. II. TREASURE TROVE about 3 min
  203. III. QUADRIFRONS about 6 min
  204. IV. A ROSE IN MISERY about 11 min
  205. V. A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE about 4 min
  206. VI. THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR about 7 min
  207. VII. STRATEGY AND TACTICS about 5 min
  208. VIII. THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL about 3 min
  209. IX. JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING about 6 min
  210. X. TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR about 5 min
  211. XI. OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS about 4 min
  212. XII. THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE about 7 min
  213. XIII. SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER about 4 min
  214. XIV. IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER about 5 min
  215. XV. JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES about 4 min
  216. XVI. IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 about 5 min
  217. XVII. THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE about 6 min
  218. XVIII. MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS about 2 min
  219. XIX. OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS about 7 min
  220. XX. THE TRAP about 39 min
  221. XXI. ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS about 5 min
  222. XXII. THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO about 3 min
  223. I. WELL CUT about 9 min
  224. II. BADLY SEWED about 5 min
  225. III. LOUIS PHILIPPE about 12 min
  226. IV. CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION about 11 min
  227. V. FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES about 17 min
  228. VI. ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS about 6 min
  229. I. THE LARK’S MEADOW about 9 min
  230. II. EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS about 7 min
  231. III. APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF about 6 min
  232. IV. AN APPARITION TO MARIUS about 7 min
  233. I. THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET about 8 min
  234. II. JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD about 4 min
  235. III. FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS about 6 min
  236. IV. CHANGE OF GATE about 8 min
  237. V. THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR about 7 min
  238. VI. THE BATTLE BEGUN about 5 min
  239. VII. TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF about 8 min
  240. VIII. THE CHAIN-GANG about 16 min
  241. I. A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN about 4 min
  242. II. MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON about 13 min
  243. I. SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED about 3 min
  244. II. COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS about 5 min
  245. III. ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT about 5 min
  246. IV. A HEART BENEATH A STONE about 5 min
  247. V. COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER about 4 min
  248. VI. OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY about 5 min
  249. I. THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND about 6 min
  250. II. IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT about 33 min
  251. III. THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT about 20 min
  252. I. ORIGIN about 12 min
  253. II. ROOTS about 14 min
  254. III. SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS about 7 min
  255. IV. THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE about 6 min
  256. I. FULL LIGHT about 9 min
  257. II. THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS about 3 min
  258. III. THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW about 5 min
  259. IV. A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG about 10 min
  260. V. THINGS OF THE NIGHT about 1 min
  261. VI. MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS about 9 min
  262. VII. THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER about 19 min
  263. I. JEAN VALJEAN about 3 min
  264. II. MARIUS about 4 min
  265. III. M. MABEUF about 6 min
  266. I. THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION about 5 min
  267. II. THE ROOT OF THE MATTER about 10 min
  268. III. A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN about 9 min
  269. IV. THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS about 8 min
  270. V. ORIGINALITY OF PARIS about 8 min
  271. II. GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH about 5 min
  272. III. JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER about 2 min
  273. IV. THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN about 2 min
  274. V. THE OLD MAN about 2 min
  275. VI. RECRUITS about 2 min
  276. I. HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION about 8 min
  277. II. PRELIMINARY GAYETIES about 15 min
  278. III. NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE about 5 min
  279. IV. AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP about 6 min
  280. V. PREPARATIONS about 3 min
  281. VI. WAITING about 3 min
  282. VII. THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES about 12 min
  283. I. FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS about 5 min
  284. II. AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS about 4 min
  285. III. THE EXTREME EDGE about 10 min
  286. I. THE FLAG: ACT FIRST about 4 min
  287. II. THE FLAG: ACT SECOND about 4 min
  288. III. GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE about 2 min
  289. IV. THE BARREL OF POWDER about 4 min
  290. V. END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE about 3 min
  291. VI. THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE about 6 min
  292. VII. GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES about 6 min
  293. I. A DRINKER IS A BABBLER about 14 min
  294. II. THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT about 6 min
  295. III. WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP about 2 min
  296. IV. GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL about 7 min
  297. I. THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE about 12 min
  298. II. WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE about 6 min
  299. III. LIGHT AND SHADOW about 3 min
  300. IV. MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE about 10 min
  301. V. THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE about 7 min
  302. VI. MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC about 3 min
  303. VII. THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED about 6 min
  304. VIII. THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY about 4 min
  305. IX. EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 about 2 min
  306. X. DAWN about 6 min
  307. XI. THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE about 2 min
  308. XII. DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER about 5 min
  309. XIII. PASSING GLEAMS about 3 min
  310. XIV. WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS about 3 min
  311. XV. GAVROCHE OUTSIDE about 5 min
  312. XVI. HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER about 14 min
  313. XVII. MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT about 2 min
  314. XVIII. THE VULTURE BECOME PREY about 5 min
  315. XIX. JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE about 4 min
  316. XX. THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG about 15 min
  317. XXI. THE HEROES about 7 min
  318. XXII. FOOT TO FOOT about 6 min
  319. XXIII. ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK about 5 min
  320. XXIV. PRISONER about 4 min
  321. I. THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA about 6 min
  322. II. ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER about 5 min
  323. III. BRUNESEAU about 5 min
  324. Chapter IV about 6 min
  325. V. PRESENT PROGRESS about 2 min
  326. VI. FUTURE PROGRESS about 8 min
  327. I. THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES about 11 min
  328. II. EXPLANATION about 3 min
  329. III. THE “SPUN” MAN about 7 min
  330. IV. HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS about 6 min
  331. V. IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH IS TREACHEROUS about 8 min
  332. VI. THE FONTIS about 3 min
  333. VII. ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING about 4 min
  334. VIII. THE TORN COAT-TAIL about 8 min
  335. IX. MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD about 6 min
  336. X. RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE about 3 min
  337. XI. CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE about 3 min
  338. XII. THE GRANDFATHER about 10 min
  339. Chapter I about 20 min
  340. I. IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN about 5 min
  341. II. MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR about 8 min
  342. III. MARIUS ATTACKED about 5 min
  343. IV. MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM about 8 min
  344. V. DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY about 2 min
  345. VI. THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY about 13 min
  346. VII. THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS about 4 min
  347. VIII. TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND about 7 min
  348. I. THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 about 13 min
  349. II. JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING about 15 min
  350. III. THE INSEPARABLE about 4 min
  351. IV. THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 about 7 min
  352. I. THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN about 29 min
  353. II. THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN about 14 min
  354. I. THE LOWER CHAMBER about 7 min
  355. II. ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS about 4 min
  356. III. THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET about 7 min
  357. IV. ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION about 3 min
  358. I. PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY about 4 min
  359. II. LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL about 3 min
  360. III. A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART about 5 min
  361. IV. A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING about 29 min
  362. V. A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY about 16 min
  363. VI. THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES about 15 min

The opening of I. M. MYRIEL

In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk.

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