6/7/2023 0 Comments Les miserables victor hugo![]() ![]() This is the story of Jean Valjean, a convict freshly out of prison after serving nineteen years hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread. The English version was realised in 1985 and the Broadway version followed two years later. ![]() The story has been filmed several times and made into a musical by the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and the librettist Alain Boublil, opening in 1980 in Paris. Cosette and Marius marry and Valjean reveals his past. Valjean rescues Marius by means of a flight through the sewers of Paris. Cosette grows up and falls in love with Marius, who is wounded during a revolutionary fight. He escapes and adopts Cosette, an illegitimate child of a poor woman, Fantine. ![]() To save an innocent man, Valjean gives himself up and is imprisoned in Toulon. Madeleine a successful businessman, benefactor, and mayor of a northern town. Valjean eventually reforms and becomes under the name of M. However, he forfeits his parole by committing a minor crime, and for this crime Valjean is haunted by the police inspector Javert. After his release, Valjean plans to rob Monseigneur Myriel, a saintlike bishop, but cancels his plan. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. Les Misérables is set in the Parisian underworld. This version Translated in 1887 by Isabel F. ![]()
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