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The Characters

-Jean Valjean- former convict, adopts orphan Cosette, very moral, tries to help people
-Inspecter Javert- rigid, doesn’t believe people can change, likes rules and order
-Monsieur and Madame Thenardier- innkeepers, dishonest, greedy, abuse Cosette when she lives with them, move to Paris when they lose the inn
Fantine- young unmarried mother, loves her daughter and tries to support her, ends up on the street corner, dies
French 2001 Movie Version

Characters, continued

Cosette- Fantine’s daughter, mistreated as child when Thenardier’s servant, when grown up falls in love with Marius, a young student who supports revolution and change
Musical versions
French 2001 film
Eponine- Thenardier’s daughter (in red), in Paris she falls in love with Marius (dies)

Characters Continued

Gavroche and the student revolutionaries- Gavroche is a homeless boy in Paris who is friends with Eponine, Marius, and his fellow students. All of them except Marius are killed at the barricade during their uprising.
Bishop of Digne- turns Valjean’s life around when he lies to save him from prison

Historical Links

• The June Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of 1832, was an unsuccessful, anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian Republicans—largely students—from June 5 to June 6, 1832. The rebellion originated in an attempt of the Republicans to reverse the July Monarchy, shortly after the death of the powerful Orleanist President of the Council, Casimir-Perier, on May 16, 1832. The rebellion was the last outbreak of violence linked with the July Revolution. Author Victor Hugo described the rebellion in his novel Les Misérables.

Focus

The novel focuses on the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. It examines the nature of law and grace, and expatiates upon the history of France, architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. The story is historical fiction because it contains factual and historic events. Contrary to what some believe, it does not use the French Revolution as a backdrop. The French Revolution took place in the eighteenth century; Les Miserables takes place in the nineteenth. The only "revolution" depicted is the June Rebellion, a student uprising.

• Les Misérables is known to many through its numerous stage and screen adaptations, most notably the stage musical of the same name, sometimes abbreviated "Les Mis"