Questions tagged [les-miserables]
For questions about Les Miserables, a novel by Victor Hugo. Use in conjunction with [victor-hugo].
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Why did Victor Hugo write that “the interior of the soul” is “grander than the sky”?
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Whether "the interior ...
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In Les Miserables, why can Javert be the judge of Fantine and why does Monsieur Madeleine have the power to stop him?
In Les Miserables, one of the Protagonists, Fantine, attacks a citizen on the open street after he insulted her and put snow in the back of her dress. She is then arrested by Javert, the local police ...
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Who does “he” refer to in this passage from Les Miserables?
In the following passage from Les Miserables, with characters Mr. Thenardier and Jean Valjean, who does the bold "he" refer to?
Be that as it may, on entering into conversation with the man, sure ...
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Why did Victor Hugo take several pages to say that his knowledge of Paris was woefully out of date?
At one point in Les Miserables, Victor Hugo inserted a fairly lengthy disclaimer (I don't recall the exact chapter number) explaining that his knowledge of Paris was basically accurate but several ...
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When was young Cosette's bedtime?
While the song "Come to Me" was probably not intended as a treatise on astronomical timekeeping or 19th-century French child-rearing, some of Fantine's lines (taken at face value) fit together for a ...
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Was there a reason Victor Hugo chose 24601 as the number for Jean Valjean?
24601 has developed into being an iconic part of both the Les Miserables book and musical. Was that number special to him, or was it simply a random number he chose (I doubt it)?
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Why don't these lines rhyme in Les Miserables?
In Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables,
There is a room that's full of toys,
There are a hundred boys and girls
I know it's translated from French, but why isn't it girls and boys? There ...
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Was there a deliberate parallel between the Thénardiers and Gollum?
Long ago, I noticed that there was a parallel between The Lord of the Rings and Les Misérables in the characters of the Thénardiers and Gollum.
Gollum has the One Ring at the start of the tale in The ...
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Why all those tangents in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables?
Anyone who's ever read Victor Hugo's immortal masterpiece Les Misérables knows that it's a long read... mostly because Hugo goes on a bunch of random tangents in the middle—on such topics as the ...
