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Charles Edwin Wilbour was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, on March 17, 1833.He received a classical education and entered Brown University, where he took a prize for proficiency in Greek and was noted for his thorough acquaintance with the ancient and modern languages, but did not graduate due to poor health.
Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə /, [4] French: [le mizeʁabl]) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the ...
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Enjolras is a republican, whose views are significantly shaped by the Montagnards of the French Revolution.The "divine right" of revolution that he expresses is said to go "as far as Robespierre", [2]: 563 and Hugo declares that "in the Convention, he would have been Saint Just".
In 1862, he made the authorised British translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which was reissued in 1864 and 1879. He made many other translations from French and German. A posthumous volume, collected from magazines, entitled Scraps and Sketches gathered together, appeared in September 1865. [2]
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Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...
The song, composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics) is first sung in Act I by Enjolras and the other students at the ABC Cafe as they prepare themselves to launch a rebellion in the streets of Paris during the funeral procession of General Jean Maximilien Lamarque.