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Javert shows up to arrest Valjean while Valjean is at Fantine's bedside, and Fantine dies from the shock. After a few years, Valjean escapes from prison and heads to Montfermeil, where he is able to buy Cosette from the Thenardiers. The Thenardiers turn out to be a family of scoundrels who abuse Cosette while spoiling their own two daughters, Eponine and Azelma...
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The Thenardiers turn out to be a family of scoundrels who abuse Cosette while spoiling their own two daughters, Eponine and Azelma. Valjean and Cosette move to a run-down part of Paris. Javert discovers their hideout, however, and they are forced to flee...
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Les Miserables Fantine that her daughter was cold and they needed money for a wool skirt. This was just an excuse to get money. Also, Thenardier billed Fantine forty francs to cure a fever that Cosette had supposedly contracted (pg...	2 / 478
Les Miserables 3 As the ill treatment continues, Valjean becomes more and more bitter toward society. He probably would have been pushed too far, and would have lashed out against his aggressors, if he had not been shown kindness by the church...	3 / 824
Les Miserables Overview The convict Jean Valjean is released from a French prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and for subsequent attempts to escape from prison...	4 / 1093
Les Miserables As the ill treatment continues, Valjean becomes more and more bitter toward society. He probably would have been pushed too far, and would have lashed out against his aggressors, if he had not been shown kindness by the church...	3 / 824
Les Miserables Hugo describes the setting of Les Miserables with great detail. Part of the motives of Hugo were to set a tone of miserable elements for the lead character Valjean, and for anyone who lived under the poverty line in France in the early nineteenth century...	4 / 1013
The Theme of Justice in Les Miserables The theme of justice starts out in the very beginning when Hugo shows how unfair human society is by introducing first characters: Jean Valjean and Fantine...	3 / 613
Les Miserables In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables Jean Valjean goes through many difficult struggles and finds the much needed influence to help him. There are three characters who influence Jean: Bishop Bienvenu, Cosette, and Bishop Bienvenu's influence on Jean is similar to that of a father's influence on his son...	2 / 458