Page "Jean Valjean" Paragraph 47

; Overture / Work Song: In the musical's first song, Valjean is called from a chain gang of prisoners to be released.

Javert hands him his yellow passport and when Valjean says that he only stole a loaf of bread and spent nineteen years in prison for this, Javert reminds him that fourteen years were for having " tried to run.

" Javert calls Valjean only by his number, 24601, Valjean insists on being called by his real name.