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Jean Valjean (French: [ʒɑ̃ val.ʒɑ̃]) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.The story depicts the character's struggle to lead a normal life and redeem himself after serving a 19-year-long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's starving children and attempting to escape from prison.
Marius Pontmercy (French pronunciation: [maʁjys pɔ̃mɛʁsi]) is a fictional character, one of the protagonists of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables.He is a young student, and the suitor of Cosette.
In 1841, Hugo saved a prostitute from arrest for assault. He used a short part of his dialogue with the police when recounting Valjean's rescue of Fantine in the novel. [21] On 22 February 1846, when he had begun work on the novel, Hugo witnessed the arrest of a bread thief while a duchess and her child watched the scene pitilessly from their ...
Fantine (French pronunciation:) is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.She is a young grisette in Paris who is impregnated by a rich student. . After he abandons her, she is forced to look after their child, Cosette, on her o
Javert (French pronunciation:), no first name given in the source novel, is a fictional character and a main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. He was presumably born in 1780 [1] and died on June 7, 1832. [2]
In 2013, Anuman Interactive launched Les Miserables: Cosette's Fate, a hidden object game based on the novel. Players embody Cosette and try to escape from the innkeepers. [85] Les Miserables: Jean Valjean, a hidden object game based on the novel. Les Misérables: Eve of Rebellion, a card game based on the novel.
Cosette (French pronunciation:) is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly.
The Thénardiers, commonly known as Monsieur Thénardier (/ t ə ˈ n ɑːr d i. eɪ /; French pronunciation:) and Madame Thénardier, are fictional characters, and the secondary antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables and in many adaptations of the novel into other media.