Les Misérables
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Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularize
Jean Valjean, under the alias Monsieur Madeleine, illustration by Gustave Brion
Eugène Vidocq, whose career provided a model for the character of Jean Valjean
Fantine by Margaret Hall
Cosette by Emile Bayard, from the original edition of Les Misérables (1862)
June Rebellion
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The June Rebellion, also called the Paris Uprising of 1832, was an anti-monarchist insurrection of Parisian republicans on 5 and 6 June 1832.
Les Misérables
…The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims, and The Dispossessed. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience…
An 1870 illustration depicting the June Rebellion
General Jean Lamarque was admired by republicans for his defeat of Legitimists in the Vendée in 1815 and his support of international republican movements.
The death of Éponine during the June Rebellion, illustration from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables