Les Misérables - Volume I - Fantine: Book Seventh - The Champmathieu Affair

Hugo, Victor

ISBN 10: 3640249453 / ISBN 13: 9783640249459

Edité par Grin Verlag, 2009

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• Titre: Les Misérables - Volume I - Fantine: Book Seventh - The Champmathieu Affair
• Éditeur: Grin Verlag
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3640249453
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783640249459
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject French Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK SEVENTH. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR*** CHAPTER I. SISTER SIMPLICE*** The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth. On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Fantine according to his wont. Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice. Sister Perpetue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold,

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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.