Marius Pontmercy is a fictional character, one of the protagonists of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Miserables.
39 Facts About Marius Pontmercy
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Marius Pontmercy is a young student, and the suitor of Cosette.
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When Marius first appears, he is living with his rich and monarchist grandfather, Monsieur Gillenormand.
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Shortly after Marius Pontmercy turns seventeen, he is sent to see his father, who is ill.
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Marius Pontmercy's father has left Marius a note, instructing him to help Thenardier in any way possible, since the Colonel believes that Thenardier saved his life at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Marius Pontmercy begins looking up his father in the official military histories and after learning that his father was a highly decorated veteran of Napoleon's army, who had been made a baron and a colonel by Napoleon.
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Marius Pontmercy's grandfather instructs Marius' aunt to send Marius money every month, but Marius always returns it.
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Marius Pontmercy meets Courfeyrac, a fellow student, who introduces him to a society called the Friends of the ABC, a political group committed to republican revolution.
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Marius Pontmercy regularly takes walks in the Luxembourg Garden, where he frequently sees Cosette and Jean Valjean.
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Valjean learns of this and, fearing that Marius Pontmercy is a spy working for the police inspector Javert, moves away that week.
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The next day, Eponine visits Marius Pontmercy, gives him a letter and begs for money.
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Marius Pontmercy begins to take an interest in her family, the Jondrettes.
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Marius Pontmercy tells her that if she does this, he will give her whatever she wants.
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Marius Pontmercy surreptitiously warns Thenardier, and Patron-Minette throw a rope ladder out the window and are about to flee when Javert intervenes and arrests them all, except Valjean, who escapes through the window.
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Marius Pontmercy seeks Cosette after he fell in love with her beauty.
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Marius Pontmercy assumes her name was "Ursula" after he finds a handkerchief she dropped.
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Marius Pontmercy finally sees where their house was and visits often, but doesn't really talk to anyone except the guard outside.
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Marius Pontmercy used to see them everyday, but now that they were gone, he falls into depression.
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Marius Pontmercy tells him she found Cosette's address, and leads him to the house.
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Cosette immediately falls in love and Marius Pontmercy reveals himself as a shadowy figure standing behind her.
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Marius Pontmercy goes to Gillenormand to try to reconcile and to get permission to marry Cosette.
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However, after Gillenormand suggests that Marius Pontmercy make Cosette his mistress, Marius Pontmercy storms out of the house, insulted.
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At this point, Marius Pontmercy saw no point in living, as Cosette was to move away.
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Marius Pontmercy confesses to Marius that it was she who told him to go to the barricades, and saved his life because she wanted to die before him.
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Marius Pontmercy tells him she has a letter for him.
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Marius Pontmercy asks Marius to promise to kiss her on the forehead after she dies, which he agrees.
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Marius Pontmercy writes a letter back to Cosette, saying since she left again with no forwarding address, he would fulfill his promise and die for her.
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Marius Pontmercy gives the letter to Gavroche, to deliver; however, Gavroche delivers the letter to Valjean.
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Valjean goes to the barricade to find Marius Pontmercy, disguised as a volunteer.
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When Valjean is tasked with executing Javert, Marius Pontmercy assumes that he has done so, and is a murderer.
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Marius Pontmercy and Cosette are married on 16 February 1833, and the wedding day is a happy one.
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Marius Pontmercy, horrified, agrees with Valjean that it would be best if Valjean never sees Cosette again.
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Marius Pontmercy thinks of Valjean as a criminal, and slowly pushes Valjean out of Cosette's life.
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Marius Pontmercy sees through the disguise and asks what Thenardier wants.
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Marius Pontmercy then gives Thenardier a large sum of money, repaying his father's death, and orders him to leave France for America.
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Marius Pontmercy is a principal character in the stage musical based on the novel of the same name.
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Since the original publication of Les Miserables in 1862, the character of Marius Pontmercy has appeared in a large number of adaptations of the novel, including books, films, musicals, plays and games.
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Marius Pontmercy is best known as the name of a Roman general, Gaius Marius Pontmercy.
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Marius Pontmercy is based on Victor Hugo's younger self, and gets his first name from Hugo's middle name.