Street children
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Street children are poor and/or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the definition of street children is con
Street Child in Mombasa Kenya
Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century.
Multiethnic group of "street gamins" in Istanbul (then known in English as Constantinople), 1921
Children sleeping in Mulberry Street, New York City, 1890 (Jacob Riis photo)
Gavroche
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Gavroche is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child. Gavroche
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…New York City. Other examples from popular fiction include Kim, from Rudyard Kipling's novel of the same name, who is a street child in colonial India. Gavroche, in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Fagin's crew of child pickpockets in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, a similar group of child thieves in Cornelia…
Illustration of Gavroche by Émile Bayard (1837-1891)
Gavroche a 11 ans (Gavroche aged 11), pen and ink drawing by Victor Hugo
Les Gavroches, a replica of the 1904 sculpture by Antonio Sciortino in the Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta, Malta.
Gavroche singing while collecting cartridges from stricken government troops