Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
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35 Facts About Les Miserables
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Les Miserables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television and the stage, including a musical.
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Les Miserables was a businessman and was widely noted for his social engagement and philanthropy.
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Les Miserables went to Toulon to visit the Bagne in 1839 and took extensive notes, though he did not start writing the book until 1845.
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Les Miserables used a short part of his dialogue with the police when recounting Valjean's rescue of Fantine in the novel.
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Les Miserables participated more directly in the 1848 Paris insurrection, helping to smash barricades and suppress both the popular revolt and its monarchist allies.
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Les Miserables informed himself by personal inspection of the Paris Conciergerie in 1846 and Waterloo in 1861, by gathering information on some industries, and on working-class people's wages and living standards.
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Les Miserables asked his mistresses, Leonie d'Aunet and Juliette Drouet, to tell him about life in convents.
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Les mysteres, like Les Miserables, viewed contemporary Paris from the point of view of the downtrodden and criminal underclasses who had been little represented in novels up to the time, and featured the interventions of detectives and the indifference of aristocrats.
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Les Miserables quickly repents and searches the city in panic for Gervais.
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Les Miserables has known only one other man, a convict named Jean Valjean, who could accomplish it.
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Les Miserables is later fired from her job at Jean Valjean's factory, because of the discovery of her daughter, who was born out of wedlock.
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Les Miserables begs to be released so that she can provide for her daughter, but Javert sentences her to six months in prison.
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Les Miserables tells Valjean he realizes he was wrong, because the authorities have identified someone else as the real Jean Valjean, have him in custody, and plan to try him the next day.
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Les Miserables finds Cosette fetching water in the woods alone and walks with her to the inn.
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Les Miserables informs Valjean that he cannot release Cosette without a note from the child's mother.
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Les Miserables tries to find a way to save Valjean while not betraying Thenardier.
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Les Miserables leads him to Valjean's and Cosette's house on Rue Plumet, and Marius watches the house for a few days.
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Les Miserables is feeling troubled about seeing Thenardier in the neighbourhood several times.
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Les Miserables's grandfather seems stern and angry, but has been longing for Marius's return.
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Les Miserables then hears a voice telling him that his friends are waiting for him at the barricade.
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Les Miserables confesses to saving his life because she wanted to die before he did.
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Les Miserables confesses to have obtained the letter the day before, originally not planning to give it to him, but decides to do so in fear he would be angry at her about it in the afterlife.
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Les Miserables learns Cosette's whereabouts and he writes a farewell letter to her.
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Les Miserables is still not certain if he wants to protect Marius or kill him.
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Les Miserables feels he can no longer give Valjean up to the authorities but cannot ignore his duty to the law.
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Les Miserables tries to convince Marius that Valjean is actually a murderer, and presents the piece of coat he tore off as evidence.
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Les Miserables then confronts Thenardier with his crimes and offers him an immense sum to depart and never return.
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Les Miserables dies content and is buried beneath a blank slab in Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
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Les Miserables instructed them to build on his earlier success and suggested this approach: "What Victor H did for the Gothic world in Notre-Dame of Paris [The Hunchback of Notre-Dame], he accomplishes for the modern world in Les Miserables".
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Les Miserables complained that the characters were crude stereotypes who all "speak very well – but all in the same way".
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Les Miserables deemed it an "infantile" effort and brought an end to Hugo's career like "the fall of a god".
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Since its original publication, Les Miserables has been the subject of a large number of adaptations in numerous types of media, such as books, films, musicals, plays and games.
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