Les Miserables, summary ,Victor Hugo 

Les Miserables, summary ,Victor Hugo 

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Novel summary:

The novel begins with the release of Jean Valjean in 1815, specifically in the French city of Denny, after he spent 19 years in the prisons of Toulon, where he was imprisoned for five years after stealing bread for his sister's children who suffered from extreme hunger, and was arrested 14 years for trying to escape many times.

After his release from prison, he tried to go down to a hotel, but he refused to receive him because he had obtained the yellow passport, which states that he was a precedent, forcing him to sleep on the streets with anger and sorrow in his heart. Then Charles Merrill, Bishop of Denny, hosted him at his home, but Jean Valjean fled the house after stealing some silverware from the Bishop, and after his arrest, Apple Merrill, the police, said he was the one who gave Valjean the silver pots and that he did not steal them and will not stop there. Jean Valjean gave two silver candlesticks as a gift, and Merrill asked Jean Valjean to give his life to God and make himself a good man in exchange for these silver. But Valjean stole again from a bystander, but he regretted his act, so he searched for the person who stole it to return his money to him, but that the theft was reported, so Jean Valjean was forced to hide, fearing to return to prison and live in it for life.

Six years later, Jean Valjean used the name of Madeleine, a wealthy person who owned a factory in the city of Montbrill Sermeer and was mayor of the city, and while he was walking he found a man in need of help as he was trapped under the wheels of the cart and would not find anyone who helped him except Jean Valjean, who was known for his strength. His assistance to the man was witnessed by the investigator, Javier, who was a guard at Toulon prison during Jean Valjean's stay in prison at the time, and the suspicion that this person was not a mayor and that this power is only for one well-known person, namely Jean Valjean.

In another scene, there was a worker in the mayor’s factory called “Fantin”, who had a child named “Cosette” from a man who abandoned her and left her alone with her daughter, so she was forced to give up her daughter to a family whose owner was a corrupt man and his bad-tempered wife, and the mother discovered their abuse of her daughter and she was She is trying hard to fulfill their requests so that her daughter will not be mistreated, and she was also expelled from the mayor's factory after it is discovered that she has an illegitimate daughter. Investigator Javier arrested her, who pleaded with him a lot to leave her so that she could provide the money for her daughter, but he did not care about that and sentenced her to six months, but after the intervention of the mayor and the intended here, Jean Valjean, she was released, and he returned her to work in the factory and takes her to the hospital.

One day, a man who was stealing because of hunger was arrested, and he was arrested as Jean Valjean, because of his precedents such as this incident, and the investigator Javier testifies that this man is really Jean Valjean despite knowing that he is not him, but that the torment The conscience that belonged to Valjean made him present himself and admit that he was Jean Valjean until he saved the innocent man, which led to his trial, so he was forced to flee again and disappear, and spent his life in this way, running away and adopting the daughter of Fantine after she died and devoted his life to her.

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Victor-Marie Hugo 

(French: Victor-Marie Hugo) (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) was a multi-talented French writer who first wrote poetry, plays, novels and essays to the point of politics and his human rights activism. Hugo was also one of the pillars of the romantic movement in France. Among his most famous works is the novel Misery and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hugo was born in Besançon in eastern France, died in Paris, and was buried in the Pantheon (cemetery of the great).

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