Les Misérables
By Victor Hugo
1781
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Jean Valjean, l'ancien forçat libéré du bagne devenu bourgeois et protecteur des faibles ; Fantine, simple ouvrière écrasée par sa condition ; le couple Thénardier, figure du mal et de l'opportunisme ; Marius, l'étudiant idéaliste ; Gavroche, le gamin impertinent tué sur les barricades ; Javert, la fatalité sous les traits d'un policier vengeur, et, bien sûr, Cosette, l'enfant victime maltraitée et mal nourrie : voilà comment une oeuvre immense incarne son siècle en quelques destins exemplaires.
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Author
Victor Hugo
Author · 110 books
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
