Les Misérables - Volume I - Fantine: Book Fifth - The Descent and Book Sixth - Javert

Hugo, Victor

ISBN 10: 3640249305 / ISBN 13: 9783640249305

Edité par Grin Verlag, 2009

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Titre : Les Misérables - Volume I - Fantine: Book ...

Éditeur : Grin Verlag

Date d'édition : 2009

Reliure : Couverture souple

Etat : New

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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject French Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT*** CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF A PORGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS*** And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was she? What was she doing? After leaving her little Cosette with the Thenardiers, she had continued her journey, and had reached M. sur M. This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the grand events of small districts had taken place. This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at length; we should almost say, to underline it.[...] *** BOOK SIXTH. JAVERT*** CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE*** M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to the wall. Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last she said timidly: -- "What are you doing?" M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine to awake. He took her hand,

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Romantic novel written by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The story takes place in France during a period of twenty years in the early nineteenth century during the Napoleonic Wars. The protagonist an ex-convict named Jean Valjean, struggles to redeem himself. The work reflects on the good and evil showing the history of France and its social context. Victor Hugo is inspired by Eugène François Vidocq, a delinquent who ended up being a policeman and creator of the French Sûreté Nationale, for the creation of the two main characters of the novel.