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Valjean was born sometime in 1769 ( most likely before October ) in the small town of Faverolles, Aisne, the son of Jean Valjean and Jeanne Valjean, née Mathieu.
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Valjean and was
One portion of the wall of the old bagne, or prison, where Jean Valjean was supposedly held still stands to the right of the entrance of the Old Harbour.
Javert pursues Valjean with the same white-hot vengeance as Captain Ahab does Moby-Dick, seeing him only as the convict he once was, rather than the benefactor of humanity he has become.
Another interpretation of this scene is that Valjean was not aware that he had moved his foot over the coin, and snarled at Petit Gervais for annoying him.
Javert, who was at the scene and had sent for a jack, told Valjean that he'd known a very strong man, back when Javert had worked as the guard for a prison chain gang, who had climbed under a wagon like that one and raised it on his back.
Javert knew only what he'd seen and was furious with Valjean for interfering with police work.
It is only here that the novel finally reveals Madeleine to be Valjean, a fact which was heavily foreshadowed before.
The judge at the trial, although quite impressed with M. Madeleine's work and reputation, is shocked that Valjean, while mentioning a date that another convict had tattoed on himself ( in order to prove that M. Madeleine was actually Jean Valjean ) called Napoleon Bonaparte " the Emperor " instead of " Bonaparte " and orders Valjean arrested for the 40-sous theft.
Fantine ( who'd been told by the doctors that Valjean, who'd been at the trial, had been getting her daughter ) was shocked to find that her daughter was not there already and that her savior was being arrested, and died of shock ( her body had been greatly weakened by her poor living conditions and long illness, probably tuberculosis ).
In July 1823, he was condemned to death for the 40-sous theft and the escape from the jail in Montreuil-sur-Mer, as the prosecutor claims that Valjean was part of a gang of street robbers and the latter refuses to defend himself.
Before he was captured, Jean Valjean had already traveled near to Montfermeil and buried all the money he'd saved as M. Madeleine — a chapter tells of a worker in Montfermeil, a former Toulon convict, who claims having seen, according to a local fairy tale, the devil burying his treasure in the forest.
Valjean was assigned a new number of 9430, but escapes from a sailing vessel after only a few months ' imprisonment, on the 16. 11. 1823, by apparently falling into the sea after a daring rescue of a sailor who had gotten stuck in a dangerous situation up in the ship's rigging.
When M. Thénardier demands more money, Valjean gives him the note Fantine signed before she died, saying that the bearer of the note was authorized to take Cosette.
After almost burying Valjean alive in a scheme to get him out of the convent so that he could openly walk back into the convent, Fauchelevent was able to bring in his " brother " Ultimas ( fr.
Marius is then told that Valjean was the man who had " assassinated " one of Marius ' relatives, carrying the body through the sewers on 6 June.
Valjean is confused by the bishop's actions, claiming that there was only one way for Valjean to go ever since he was first condemned for stealing a loaf of bread.
Valjean and born
Jean Valjean is born the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte, and his imprisonment equals the years of Napoleon's rise to power and the Napoleonic wars ( 1796-1815 ).
Javert scoffs at Valjean's request for three day's time to free Cosette, and ridicules and berates Valjean as a recidivist and criminal scum, and mocks his claims of morality by telling of his own origin, being born in a prison with men like Valjean.
Valjean and 1769
Jean Valjean ( c. 1769 – 1833 ) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.
Valjean and before
* Valjean brings Cosette to Fantine before she dies, while in the book he does not fulfil this pledge to Fantine until on his own deathbed.
Valjean asks for three days to get Cosette from Montfermeil and give her to Fantine before he is arrested and Javert refuses, saying that it would be too easy for Valjean to escape.
Valjean manages to escape before the latter recognizes him.
Valjean does not know that Cosette returns Marius ' love and does not understand why Cosette seems less attached to " her grandfather " than before.
Valjean returns from the trial and promises to take care for her child, just before she dies.
As Javert arrives, Valjean manages to escape with Cosette, before Javert recognises him.
* Valjean knocks Javert out before fleeing from the hospital.
* Javert is only with Valjean when he confronts him before agreeing to let Marius live.
* Cosette and Marius are already lovers before the attack on Valjean in the Gorbeau House.
Although Fantine dies before her daughter can be brought to her, Valjean becomes determined to look after the young girl.
Javert helps Valjean return Marius to his grandfather's house and requests to be brought home to say goodbye to Cosette before being sent back to the galleys, Javert allows it, and when Valjean instinctively looks out the window, Javert is gone.
After witnessing Valjean saving Fauchelevant from a runaway cart, he tells " Madeleine " that the latter's strength reminds him of the real Valjean, whom he remembers from the prison years before.
At the end of the song, the real Valjean steps before the court where Javert is testifying to the doppelganger's identity as Valjean.
Valjean and October
Les Miserables celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 8, 1995 with a concert performed by the ' Dream Cast ' led by the original London & Broadway cast Jean Valjean, Colm Wilkinson, & Philip Quast as Javert Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert
Valjean and small
Over the course of the decade during which Javert knew him, Valjean had committed, to Javert's limited but accurate knowledge, breaking and entering, violent robbery of a small child, multiple counts of fraud, child " kidnapping " and numerous escapes from prison ; to make matters worse, just several hours ago Javert found him with the rebels on the barricade — an offence which in itself merits the death penalty.
Valjean and town
Jean Valjean enters the town of Montreuil-sur-Mer in late 1815 and saves the two children of the town's police chief from a fire.
Javert believed her and left, giving Valjean an opportunity to escape the town.
Along with the students and the inhabitants of the town, Javert, Valjean, Cosette, Éponine, Gavroche, the Thénardiers, and Marius ponder what this " tomorrow " will bring (" One Day More ").
Adrian Glew also uncovered that both the hunchback and Hugo were living in the same town of Saint Germain-des-Pres in 1833, and in early drafts of Les Misérables, Hugo named the main character " Jean Trajin " ( the same name as the unnamed hunchback carver's employee ), but later changed it to " Jean Valjean ".
* A fictional town in Les Misérables ( 1998 film ) that Jean Valjean moved to
After no one makes a move to detain him — Javert had by then already left town to return to Montreuil-sur-Mer — Valjean leaves the courtroom.
Valjean and son
In the musical, when Valjean sings Bring Him Home, he relates Marius to a son he might have had, and begs God to save Marius ' life for Marius ' own sake.
Valjean and Jean
It is the location of the infamous prison, the bagne of Toulon, in which the protagonist Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in hard labour.
* Misérables – Époque 1: Jean Valjean, Les ( 1913 ) .... Éponine Thénardier
* Fredric March as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Jean Valjean as Monsier Madeleine.
Even though Jean Valjean is unarguably the novel's main protagonist, he is only introduced in the second book of Part One.
Bewildered and not really understanding what the bishop is talking about, Jean Valjean heads instead back out into the nearby mountains and meets a young foreign traveling worker named Petit Gervais.
Jean Valjean also bought the broken cart and horse as an excuse to give Father Fauchelevent money.
Javert is told that he must be incorrect because the " real " Jean Valjean ( who is in reality Champmathieu ) had just been found.
Javert then apologizes to " M. Madeleine ", and tells him that the " real " Jean Valjean has been found and is to be tried the next day.
After giving his evidence and proving that he is the real Jean Valjean, nobody wants to arrest him, so Valjean says that they know where to find him and he returns to Montreuil-sur-Mer.
A short chapter, mainly consisting of two newspaper articles, informs the reader, that Jean Valjean has been re-arrested while getting into the stagecoach to Montfermeil ( on his way to get Fantine's eight-year-old daughter, Cosette, whom he had promised to rescue ).
Only now does the book confirm that the mysterious man Cosette met is actually Jean Valjean.
Javert goes undercover, discovers that it is Jean Valjean, and makes plans to arrest him.
The day after the wedding, Valjean reveals to Marius that he is, in fact, Jean Valjean and an ex-convict from Toulon.
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