Chapter 6 The Barricades It is a long night at the barricade in the Rue de la Chanvrerie. The news is bad. More and more soldiers are arriving in the city, but the peop…
Chapter 5 Love and Rebellion So, what is Marius’s idea? It is this … He wants to marry Cosette, but he has no money. His grandfather has money. He must ask his grandfat…
Chapter 4 Marius Nine years pass. Valjean and Cosette are living in the Rue Plumet in Paris, in a house with a big garden. It is a quiet street and nobody comes there. …
Chapter 3 Cosette Monsieur Madeleine is, of course, Jean Valjean. You knew that already. After Digne, he sells the bishop’s silver plates (but keeps the candlesticks). …
Chapter 2 Fantine Now we meet Fantine. She is young and beautiful, and in love with a man in Paris. But she has no family, and no money. For Fantine, this is the love o…
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” “All grown-ups were once chil…
Chapter 27 A Concert for the Rose And now six years have already gone by... I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content t…
Chapter 26 To the Starts Beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall. When I came back from my work, the next evening, I saw from some distance away my litt…
Chapter 25 "One must look with the heart……" "Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then…
Chapter 24 "What is essential is invisible to the eye!" It was now the eighth day since I had had my accident in the desert, and I had listened to the story of the merc…