With so many themes wonderfully woven into a complex and captivating story, no wonder it is one of the longest novels ever written. It covers French history, society, politics and even architecture, and at the same time deals with universal themes of injustice, love in its many forms, the quest for redemption and even the evolution of a man’s soul. Set in 1815, it follows the struggles of many characters, most notably, Jean Valjean. The French title Les Misérables is translated into English as The Miserable Ones, The Victims or The Poor Ones. After all, we still have hope, injustice, love, strife, drama and yes, misery in the 21st century. Though their fictional lives are set two centuries ago, their angst, sorrow, joy, hopes, dreams and even their misery resonate even in today’s times. Hugo’s highly complex characters such as Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette and Eponine have become popular all around the world. What took place next in the fate of M.When Victor Hugo first published his classic novel Les Misérables, little did he know that his French historical novel would be translated into other languages and evolve into various adaptations on stage and film, including an award winning movie version in 2012.
There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution. The Revolution came events succeeded each other with precipitation the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry.
In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk.
It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D- He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D- since 1806.Īlthough this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese.
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