The Thénardiers, commonly known as Monsieur Thénardier and Madame Thénardier, are fictional characters, and the secondary antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables and in many adaptations
The Thénardiers, from the first French-language edition (1862), by Gustave Brion
Javert, from the first French-language edition.
Thénardier presents himself to Marius as "M. Thénard".
Éponine Thénardier, also referred to as "Ponine", the "Jondrette girl" and the "young working-man", is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
Thénardiers
…criminals, to provide comic relief from the generally more serious tone of the story. When Hugo introduces the Thénardiers, they have two daughters named Éponine and Azelma, whom they spoil and pamper as children, and a son called Gavroche. They run an inn in the town of Montfermeil. The Thénardiers are both…
Éponine intervenes to stop Patron-Minette robbing Valjean's home.
Éponine visits Marius to give him a letter.
Éponine dies in Marius' arms at the barricade.
Éponine: A Rose in Misery (1890) by Pierre Jeanniot