Les Miserables by

Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean
-Jailed for:
1) Stealing a loaf of bread
2) Frequent escape attempts
(14)
-Je-Nie-Dieu
-Jean-the-Jack
-Disguises:
1) Monsieur Madeleine black beads, mayor
(Montreuil, 1820)
2) Ultimus
3) Monsieur Fauchelevent
-Monsieur LeBlanc
-tree pruner; Faverolles
-24601 (Toulon)
-9430 (Orion)
Jean Mathieu
Brevet
-turnkey in the prison
Chenildieu
-little man, prison roommate
-traufax forces a la
perpetuite
Cochepaille
-stupid
Boulatruelle (digger)
Champmathieu
Petit Gervais
Fantine
Cosette: cherished
-Madamoiselle Lanoire
-Ursula
-the lark
-doll: Catherine
-Euphraise: good cheer
Toussaint
Marius Pontmercy
Inspector Javert

the

Monsieur Chabouillet
M. Charles Myriel (Bishop of
Digne)
-Bienvenu
Madamoiselle Baptistine
Mme. Magloire
M. Thenardier
-paid 1500 francs for Cosette
-disguises:
1) Mr. Jodrette
2) Monsieur Thenard
-paid 500 francs by Marius
Mme. Thenardier
Eponine Thenardier
Gavroche Thenardier
Azelma Thenardier
M. Gillenormand
Theodule Gillenormand
-servants:
girl: Nicolette
boy: province
Madamoiselle Gillenormand
Colonel Georges Pontmercy
Enjolras (leader)-logic
Combeferre (scientific)philosophy
Jean Prouvaire (poet)
Feuilly (fan-maker)
Courfeyrac -centre
Bahorel (troublemaker)
Bossuet (unlucky law
student)
Joly (medicine student;
hypochondriac)
Grantaire (cynic; Enjolras
believer; drunk)
Pere Fauchelevent
Father Mabeuf
-Flora of Cauteretz
-On the Devils of Vauvert and
Goblins of La Bieve

Patron Minette
-Montrapasse (young, gamin
turned bagavond)
-Babet (chemist, great talker)
-Claquesous (ninja)
-Gueulemer (Hercules)
*Brujon, Bigrenaille, Deux
Milliards
Felix Tholomyes
Sister Simplice
Sister Perpetue
Madame Victurnien
Margeritte
Madame Hucheloup
Chowdre & Fricasse

*3 witnesses
*The Friends of the ABC (ABC
Society)
Notable Places:
Montreuil-sur-mer
Montfermeil
To the Sergeant of Waterloo
Digne
Arras (court)
Gorbeau House (No. 50-52)
Marais, Rue des Fille-duCalvaire, No. 6
Madame Bourgon
river Seine
Austerlitz Bridge
Petit-Picpus convent
Vernon (Pontmercys
hometown)
Luxembourg Gardens
Field of the Lark
Rue Plumet, Saint-Germain
Rue Saint-Denis

Bastille prison
Corinth, wine shop (Pot of
Roses)
Caf Musain
Porte Sainte-Jacques Hotel
Rue St. Denis
Rue delHomme-Arme
Faubourg Saint-Antoine
Pere Lachaise cemetery
La Croix de Colas (The Cross
of Colbas) inn of Jacquin
Labarre
Toulon
Saint-Sulpice church

Notable Events:
The Battle of Waterloo
-Napoleon Bonaparte;
defeated by
the weather
Funeral procession of Gen.
Jean Maximilien Lamarque
(June 5, 1832)
Others:
Toulon
The Orion ( November 1823)
The cops are here.
the Inseparable
//He sleeps. Though fate
was quite strange to him,
//He lived. He died when he
no longer had his angel.
//The thing simply happened
of itself,
//as the night makes itself
when the day departs.