M (short for meter) Miriè re is the bishop of D-in southern France. He is a 75-year-old man, originally from an aristocratic family, who went to ruin after the French Revolution. He is knowledgeable, frugal and charitable. He donated the salary of fifteen thousand francs he received from the government every year to local charities. People call him Bishop Bienvenu (meaning "welcome"). Mr. miriam believes that he lives in this world "not for his own life, but to protect the hearts of the world". At that time, some villages and towns were harassed by robbers, who personally influenced them. He sprained his bone so as not to step on the ant. He preached that the best way for people to relieve pain is to "love each other". At the beginning of October, 1815, Jean Valjean, a prisoner who had just been released from prison, passed by D City, and no one refused to take him in for the night. Bishop miriam took him in and called him a brother.
Jean Valjean is a man of medium height, short stature, with a beard and a cloth bag on his back. He is about forty years old, in the prime of life. When he entered the Bishop's house, he told Mr. miriam directly that he was a criminal and spent nineteen years in prison. At the same time, he talked about the difficulty of staying in D City: "Many families don't want me. I went to the prison again and the doorman refused to open the door. I've been to the kennel, too. The dog bit me and kicked me out as if it were a human being, as if it knew who I was. I ran to the field and planned to spend the night in the open air. But there are no stars in the sky. I think it's going to rain, and there is no good God to stop it, so I'm going back to the city ... "The Bishop invited Jean Valjean to have dinner with him and made him a white bed for the night. It was the first time in nineteen years that Jean Valjean had a bed to sleep in.
Jean Valjean was a tree-trimmer and came from a poor peasant family. He lost his parents when he was a child. He worked nonstop all day to support his widowed sister's seven children, but he still couldn't get enough food and clothes. In the pruning season, he can earn twenty-five coppers a day, and then he will cut wheat, herd cattle and do heavy work for others. One winter, Jean Valjean couldn't find a job, and his seven nephews were starving. As a last resort, he broke the glass of the bakery and took a piece of bread. Therefore, he was accused of being a thief and sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the court. Later, he escaped from prison several times and was arrested again. The penalty was increased from 5 years to 19 years. For this reason, he felt that the losses he caused to others were too unbalanced compared with those caused to him by others. He hates the law, no longer trusts people, wants to retaliate against society, and his character becomes grumpy and withdrawn.
The bed in the Bishop's house is too comfortable. Jean Valjean slept in the middle of the night and woke up. He couldn't sleep any more. He saw six pairs of glittering silverware in the bishop's house, which made his eyes hot and made him think evil. So he got out of bed quietly, stole the ancient silverware and ran away. However, he was caught by the police before he ran far. In the morning, he was taken to see the bishop, waiting for the arrangement of bad luck in dismay. But to his surprise, the bishop said he was willing to give the stolen silver to Jean Valjean. He also said that Jean Valjean had forgotten to bring a pair of silver candlesticks. So he took out a pair of silver candlesticks and handed them over. The police thought they had the wrong man, so they let Jean Valjean go. Finally, the bishop said softly to Jean Valjean, "Don't forget, you took this money to be an honest man."
Jean Valjean was very upset after he left the bishop. But he made another mistake on the way. A child named Gelve is playing with a piece of money worth forty coppers. Jean Valjean took his money and scared little riel away. Afterwards, he felt very unhappy and secretly called himself a scoundrel. Remembering what the Bishop said to him, he made up his mind to turn over a new leaf and vowed to be a good man.
Fantine, a common woman, was nicknamed "Blonde Beauty". She lost her parents when she was a child and has been working since she was ten. "She has gold and pearls, but her gold is on her head and pearls are in her mouth." She is a beautiful girl with white teeth and light yellow hair. At the age of fifteen, she went to Paris to "try her luck" with some girlfriends. There, she fell in love with a college student, Tholomyes. But Tholomyes is a shallow and vulgar playboy. After he took Fantine, he abandoned her. Fantine gave birth to a girl named Cosette. She lived beyond her means in Paris. At the age of 22, he returned to his hometown with his children on his back. When passing through Montfermeil, she put her daughter in foster care at Thenardier's inn. Then she went back to her hometown and worked as a female worker in a factory.
Fantine's hometown Monterrey is a light industrial city. People imitate British jets and German burning methods to produce martyrs' handicrafts. However, due to the expensive raw materials, the production level is very low. 18 15 At the end of the year, a person who called herself Madeleine came. He reformed the production of the craft, replaced the loose rubber with lacquer glue, greatly reduced the cost, made the production of the craft flourish, and became a millionaire himself. Madeleine built a tall factory in the city and recruited "honest men and women" as workers. He demanded that all workers should be chaste and have good morals. In the fifth year, he became the mayor of the coastal city of Montevideo. This M. Madeleine was none other than Jean Valjean, a convict. Fantine works in his factory.
Jean Valjean's life is as simple as before. His hair is gray and his eyes are serious; Dark skin, like a worker; Look gloomy, like a philosopher. He often wears a wide-brimmed hat and a long tweed dress buttoned to his chin. He performs the duties of mayor and lives alone behind closed doors after work. He usually talks to several people. He avoided greeting, met people, saluted from the side, and quickly avoided. "He smiles to avoid talking and gives alms to avoid smiling." Women all say that he is "what a good bear". He did a lot of good things in secret, and the people all said, "This is a rich man who is not proud. This is a happy and not complacent person. " Others say that he is a mysterious figure. In 1821, the newspaper published the news of the death of M. Miriè re. Bishop Madeleine of Transdny was dressed in black and wore a black veil on his hat. People are very surprised
Whenever Mr. Madeleine walked quietly and kindly in the street and was praised by the citizens, there was always a tall man, leaning on a thick stick and wearing a flat hat, who followed him with his eyes until he was out of sight. This man is a spy of the public security department. His name is Javert. He is in his forties, his eyes are like steel cones, and the cold light stings people's spleen. Javert devoted his life to "vigilance and reconnaissance" He understands the most tortuous things in the world with a straight eye. He is convinced of his role and loves his post; He is a spy, just like everyone else is a priest. Javert is "composed of two feelings: respect for the government and hatred for rebellion". He is a spy with a heart of stone. He accepted the task of the Paris police station and was arranged in the Montevideo police station by the sea to secretly visit the origin and true face of the mayor of Madeleine.
One day, an old man named Uncle Fauchelevent was crushed under the carriage and was about to be crushed to death. Mayor Madeleine happened to pass by. He lifted the carriage with his own strength and saved old fauchelevent. He also cured Fauchelevent and later introduced him to a convent in Paris as a gardener. Old fauchelevent is very grateful to the mayor.
Fantine worked as a female worker in Madeleine factory, hiding her past and avoiding talking about her daughter. But her secret was known by a gossipy lady, Mrs. Vic Deng Haofu, who tipped off the female workshop manager. The magistrate dismissed Fantine as a "dishonest woman" according to the conditions put forward by Mr. Madeleine when recruiting workers. From then on, Fantine's suffering came. She went door to door asking others to hire her as a servant, but no one wanted her. She is in arrears with the landlord's rent and can't even send her daughter's foster care monthly. Thenardier, who adopted Cosette, was a pair of greedy ordinary citizens who blackmailed Fantine in various names, and the foster care fee was increased from six francs to fifteen francs per month. On one occasion, Thenardier wrote to Fantine for ten francs on the pretext of buying Cosette a warm coat. Fantine was helpless, so she cut off her beautiful blonde hair and sold it for ten francs. On another occasion, Thenardier wrote that Cosette had scarlet fever and asked her to send forty francs. Fantine had no choice but to sell her pearly teeth. In this way, she was old and ugly, and finally became a prostitute and got lung disease.
A gentleman insulted Fantine in the street. Fantine swore a few words and happened to be seen by a policeman Javert. He wants to sentence Fantine to six months in prison. When the mayor of Madeleine came out to clear the way, Fantine saw the mayor and remembered that she had been fired from the Madeleine factory. She flew into a rage and took all her anger out on him. She blamed Madeleine for putting her in this position. Madeleine apologized to her and ordered Javert to let her go, take her home for illness, pay off all her debts and prepare to take her long-lost daughter away.
However, an accident happened at this moment. A poor man named Uncle Champmathieu was arrested for stealing apples to make wine. In arras provincial prison. Bly, the prison guard, is an old prisoner. He regarded Champmathieu as Jean Valjean. Because they are similar in age, appearance and figure. Two other prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment also concluded that Champmathieu was Jean Valjean. In this way, Jean Valjean, whom Javert had scouted for many years, went to prison. He felt that he had wronged the mayor of Madeleine and apologized to him.
Soon, the Champmathieu case will begin. At this time, the mayor of Madeleine had a fierce ideological struggle, because he was Jean Valjean. He was originally "anonymous, established a career, avoided the world and converted to God". What happened in front of him ruined his ideal of life. There are only two ways before him: either, let others stand up for him without conscience; Otherwise, he must turn himself in and go back to prison. Finally, he chose the latter way and decided to turn himself in to save the man who had suffered injustice. He thinks that he did this "on the surface, he went back to hell, but in fact he walked out of it." He went to the court in arras to reveal his original identity, so Uncle Champmathieu was released.
Javert was ordered to arrest Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean asked for three days' grace to meet Fantine's children and reunite with Fantine before going to prison, but Javert refused. He grabbed Jean Valjean by the collar and called him a robber, thief and convict. Therefore, Fantine, who was seriously ill, was frightened. After Jean Valjean was arrested, he escaped from prison and took care of Fantine's affairs himself. He went to Paris to withdraw his bank account. Then he went back to Montfermeil to redeem Fantine's daughter, but by this time he had been arrested and sentenced to hard labor for life by the court. It was not until 1823 1 1 month that he climbed the mast of the battleship Aliyong to rescue a sailor and pretended to swim in the water (people thought he was flooded).
Thenardier inn, because the owner is vicious, the business is very light. Little Cosette has grown to eight years old in the shop. She is thin and yellow, and looks like a six-year-old child. Two big eyes are deeply hidden in a shadow and have lost their luster. This is because I often cry. All her clothes are just rags, which will make people uncomfortable in summer and uncomfortable in winter. "She eats better than dogs and worse than cats; And cats and dogs are often her diners. " She took on all the chores in the inn, washing clothes, mopping the floor, cleaning and carrying water all day. People call her "lark" because she is not much older than a bird.
Thenardier, the shopkeeper, was a soldier in his early years. He is a despicable villain, stealing people's property on the battlefield of Waterloo. His wife is a tall woman, fierce and vicious. This pair of men and women are "an evil spirit, a female epidemic, an ugly donkey and a bad horse." Cosette lived among them, under two kinds of pressures, like a small animal, squeezed by a millstone and torn by iron tongs at the same time. Thenardier's inn seemed to be a spider's web, on which Cosette was bound and trembling. She was beaten all over by the boss's wife, and she didn't even have a pair of winter shoes. It was getting dark, and Cosette had to carry a bucket bigger than herself to fetch water in the Woods. She was cold and scared. One night, an old man in rags came to help Cosette carry the vat full of water home. In the evening, he stayed at Thenardier Inn. He showed great concern and love for Cosette and bought her from the shopkeeper at a high price of 1,500 francs. This is Jean Valjean who came to save her.
Jean Valjean took Cosette to Paris and rented a house in a remote place. He taught her to read and devoted all his enthusiasm and love to Cosette. Jean Valjean never goes out during the day. Every evening, he goes out for a walk for an hour or two. He always chooses the most remote alley and often stays with Cosette. He gave money to beggars. Once, when he gave money to an old beggar, he recognized the beggar as Javert in disguise.
Javert believed that Jean Valjean fell into the water on the warship Alion. Later, he happened to read a news in the newspaper that an unknown criminal cheated a little girl from Meng. So he suspected that Jean Valjean was still alive and went to Paris.
When Jean Valjean was discovered by Javert, he fled overnight with little Cosette. Javert followed the police closely. Jean Valjean was trapped in an alley and was in a dilemma. At the critical moment, Jean Valjean used several tricks to escape from prison, climbed a high wall, tied Cosette's waist with a street lamp rope, and put her on the wall, out of danger.
On the other side of the wall is a wide garden, which turned out to be a convent. The old man who looked after the garden was Grandpa Fauchelevent, and the mayor of Madeleine saved his life.
By chance, Jean Valjean found a way out. Fauchelevent told him to hide in his own house, and later went to the dean, saying that Jean Valjean was his brother and wanted him to be a gardener in the garden. The dean agreed. In this way, Jean Valjean had to leave the garden before he could be introduced from the gate in the name of a brother. At that time, the convent was heavily guarded, with a porter at the front door, which was locked after dark. Climbing over the wall again is risky. Coincidentally, there was a mother in the hospital who should have been buried in the cemetery outside the hospital, but the dean obeyed the will and buried her under the altar, so she had to be buried in an empty coffin to hide her eyes and ears. Grandpa fauchelevent thinks this is a good opportunity. He let Jean Valjean lie in an empty coffin, was carried to the cemetery outside the yard, and then let him come out from there. Since then, Jean Valjean has lived in a monastery in the legal capacity of cutting a second child.
There was an old man named Gillenormand in Paris. He was a shallow, impatient and irritable gentleman. He was very dissolute when he was young. He was married twice, and then his wife got married and lived a widowed life. He has two daughters. The eldest daughter is an "old wood that can't be burned." She is unmarried at the age of 50 and waits on him at home. The second daughter married one of Napoleon's officers, George Pontmercy. M. Gillenormand disagreed with this marriage because he was a royalist, but it was when Napoleon was in power and he could do nothing. After the restoration of the monarchy, he called his son-in-law a "gangster" and cut off contacts with them. Soon, his second daughter died, leaving a child named Marius. Old Gillenormand unreasonably tried to take away his grandson and threatened his son-in-law that he would not inherit unless Marius was handed over to him. For the benefit of the children, Pontmercy had to give in.
Marius grew up in the aristocratic living room under the guidance of the old gentleman and was influenced by the royalist views. He always thought that his father didn't love him, otherwise he wouldn't leave him to his grandfather. He learned from law school and never met his father. He is a noble, generous, conceited, pious and brave young man who is hot outside and cold inside. 1827, he just turned 17 years old. One night, his grandfather informed him to go to Vernon because his father was very ill. The next day, Marius set out in a carriage, but when he arrived in Vernon, his father was already dead. He left Marius a suicide note, which said that he was brave and good at fighting on the battlefield of Waterloo, and Napoleon himself made him a baron. After the restoration of monarchy, the royal family denied his title of consanguinity, but he thought that Marius should inherit his title. At the same time, he wanted Marius to remember that in that battle, a sergeant named Thenardier carried him off the battlefield and saved his life. If he has the opportunity to see him in the future, he hopes to repay him as much as possible.
When Marius returned to Paris, he learned more about his father from an old priest. It turned out that his father didn't love him, but loved him deeply: every month or two, his father always came to Paris from other places, hid behind a pillar of the church, secretly watched Marius go to mass, and cried bitterly, because M. Gillenormand forbade him to recognize Marius, otherwise the children would be driven away from home ... Since then, Marius' view of his father has changed greatly. He borrowed a set of government bulletins from the library of law school and learned all the history of France, France, France and the empire. In his mind, Napoleon is no longer a murderer, but a sun rising in Ran Ran. He thinks his father is also a great hero, and he regrets that his father died too early. He often carries his grandfather to Vernon and kneels at his father's grave and cries bitterly.
Once, when my grandfather was rummaging through his clothes, he found the father's suicide note that Marius often hung on his chest. When the old gentleman flew into a rage, Marius refuted him and shouted the slogan of overthrowing the feudal dynasty in front of his grandfather. M gillenormand trembled with anger. He drove Marius out of the house and forbade him to set foot in it again.
It was in 183 1 that a group of young people in Paris set up a secret organization called "Friends of ABC Club" in order to oppose the feudal Bourbon Dynasty and support the political system. They often discuss political and human rights issues in coffee shops. Among them, the main figures are Enjolras, Combeferre, Jean-Bert Rouville, Piaget and so on. After sleeping on the street, Marius got to know Rajger, and introduced him to the people of "Friends of ABC Club" from Rajger, and attended their seminars, where he heard many novel ideas.
Norman menstruation tried to send money to help Marius, but Marius always gave it back. He found himself a lawyer and lived a self-reliant life.
Marius likes to walk on the remote roads in Luxembourg. There, he often sees an old man with white hair and a young girl sitting in an armchair chatting. The girl is tall and beautiful, with golden chestnut hair, forehead like jade, cheeks as bright as rose petals, a smiling face, a mouth with a musical voice and a charming and quiet expression. So this is the grown-up Jean Valjean and Cosette. Marius was attracted by Cosette's beauty. He dressed up and went to Luxembourg every day just to see her. Later, he inquired about the names of the old man and the girl, and once secretly followed them to their residence. Jean Valjean thought Marius was a spy, and in a few days, he and Cosette moved. Marius was very unhappy not to see them.
Marius rented an old house called Gorbeau, and the tenants Ron Delaitre lived next door. This is the bankrupt inn owner Thenardier, who moved from Montfermeil to Paris and lived a fraudulent life. He is also connected with the Gang of Four in Paris. He has two girls and a son, but he only loves girls, not his son. He kicked his son out of the house and let him wander in the street. One day, Thenardier asked his daughter to beg charity from a philanthropist in church. Seeing her pity, the philanthropist bought clothes and took his beautiful daughter to visit Thenardier. Marius recognized the philanthropist and his daughter from the hole in the wall, which was exactly what he had been looking for. He is very happy with the white-haired old man and young girl he often meets in Luxembourg.
Thenardier made some emergency arrangements to welcome the arrival of philanthropists: he put out the fire, stabbed the chair, broke the glass, tore his shirt, told his wife to lie in bed and pretend to be poor, so as to arouse greater sympathy of philanthropists. As the room was too dark, Jean Valjean failed to recognize Meng as a villain. Thenardier recognized Jean Valjean and asked Jean Valjean to pay his rent of sixty francs. Jean Valjean agreed, but he only brought five francs, and he promised to deliver the money himself at six o'clock in the evening. Before he left, he took off a coat and gave it to Thenardier.
Thenardier regarded Jean Valjean's second visit as a good opportunity for kidnapping and fraud. He colluded with the underground gang and prepared the murder weapon for evil ... all this was seen by Marius. He decided to rescue Jean Valjean's father and daughter, but he didn't know Jean Valjean's address and couldn't inform him. At last he had to report to the police station, and it happened that Detective Javert was receiving him. Javert gave Marius a pistol, told him to observe the progress in the hole in the wall, fired a warning shot in an emergency, and he wanted to surround the house with police.
At six o'clock in the evening, Jean Valjean sent money to Thenardier. Thenardier arranged for his two daughters to keep watch in the street in advance, and then he ordered the gang to tie Jean Valjean up and threatened Jean Valjean with a red-hot blunt chisel, asking him to write a personal letter in an attempt to take his daughter Cosette hostage. At this critical moment, Marius will shoot the police. However, Thenardier told Jean Valjean (who was still in the dark) his name and mentioned that he had saved an officer at Waterloo. Marius realized that Thenardier, nicknamed Jean Delaitre, was his father's benefactor. If he fired, Thenardier would be arrested by the police, and there would be a fierce battle between the father who rescued his sweetheart and the benefactor who repaid his dead father. Finally, he came up with a way to kill two birds with one stone. He threw a note that said "Lei Zi is coming" into the room, so that he could put aside the murderer and save the victim. Sure enough, Dana in the first group found this note and thought it was thrown in by his daughter who was outside watching the wind. They immediately panicked. Just as they were about to escape, Javert rushed into the room with the police. The first Dana was arrested. Jean Valjean recognized Javert and jumped out of the window when people panicked.
1June, 832, a pacifist uprising broke out in Paris. Marius was one of the leaders of this uprising. On the day of the uprising, the citizens of Paris were boiling, roadblocks were built in the streets and lanes, and there were high-spirited and fearless soldiers everywhere, even the old and the children participated in the battle. An 80-year-old man, regardless of his life, climbed the street barricade and raised the red flag that was shot down in the air, resulting in a heroic sacrifice; Gavroche, a 1 1 year-old tramp, collected ammunition for the insurgents and sang songs mocking government soldiers in the rain of bullets; Jean Valjean also took part in the on-site rescue work. At this time, Javert, who acted as a government spy, sneaked into the street fort, was captured by the rebels and handed over to Jean Valjean for execution. Jean Valjean turned good for evil and let the spy who had killed him all his life sneak away.
The uprising was suppressed by government forces. Marius was seriously injured in the battle. Jean Valjean rescued him from the sewer and ran away from it on his back. Unfortunately, they met Javert, and the road was very narrow. But this time Javert turned his back on himself, returned good for evil, and let Jean Valjean and Marius go. Due to serious dereliction of duty, he committed suicide by jumping into the Seine River in extreme contradiction.
Marius was treated at his grandfather's house. After the injury, he fell in love with Cosette and got back together with his grandfather Gillenormand. Jean Valjean told Marius about his life and experience, hoping to win the sympathy and understanding of his son-in-law, but Marius thought he was a bad man and always broke the law, leaving him to Cosette. Later, Marius learned from Thenardier what Jean Valjean had done all his life. Then he regretted his rude attitude towards the old man and returned to Jean Valjean with Cosette. By this time Jean Valjean was sick in bed and dying. Jean Valjean recalled Bishop Miriam and left in the arms of the young lovers. ...