Contents · 367 sections
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER15 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN29 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY3 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD12 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 18326 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
- VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
- BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON14 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
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Les Miserables · Victor Hugo
BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
Read online · About 11 minutesLet us return—it is a necessity in this book—to that fatal battle-field.
On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher’s ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during catastrophes.
After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean remained deserted.
The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw up his report to Lord Bathurst.
If ever the sic vos non vobis was applicable, it certainly is to that village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not in the battle, bears off all the honor.
We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.
Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some philosophers—Voltaire among the number—affirm that it is precisely those persons who have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the shoes from a dead man.
One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary soldier, out of the question.
Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers’ servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,—we are not speaking of the present,—dragged all this behind them, so that in the special language they are called “stragglers.” No army, no nation, was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, Live on the enemy! produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does not always know why certain generals, great in other directions, have been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice to mention it.
Nevertheless, on the night from the 18th to the 19th of June, the dead were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another.
The moon was sinister over this plain.
Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of those whom we have just described,—neither English nor French, neither peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived at some distance a sort of little sutler’s wagon with a fluted wicker hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean to Braine l’Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and that prowler.
The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass.
In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds of the English camp were audible.
Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense semicircle over the hills along the horizon.
We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many brave men.
If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in one’s breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, to have children; to have the light—and all at once, in the space of a shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one’s sword useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, since one’s bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel a heel which makes one’s eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses’ shoes in one’s rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and to say to one’s self, “But just a little while ago I was a living man!”
There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower part—such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot which is still pointed out.
It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point where it became level, where Delort’s division had passed, the layer of corpses was thinner.
The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet in the blood.
All at once he paused.
A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger something sparkling, which was a ring of gold.
The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand.
He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above the edge of the hollow road. The jackal’s four paws suit some actions.
Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet.
At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him from behind.
He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized the skirt of his coat.
An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh.
“Come,” said he, “it’s only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a gendarme.”
But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in the grave.
“Well now,” said the prowler, “is that dead fellow alive? Let’s see.”
He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, where nothing was discernible but blood.
However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His eyes were still closed.
On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor.
The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs which he had beneath his great coat.
Then he felt of the officer’s fob, discovered a watch there, and took possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and pocketed it.
When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes.
“Thanks,” he said feebly.
The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused him from his lethargy.
The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was audible in the plain; some patrol was probably approaching.
The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:—
“Who won the battle?”
“The English,” answered the prowler.
The officer went on:—
“Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them.”
It was already done.
The prowler executed the required feint, and said:—
“There is nothing there.”
“I have been robbed,” said the officer; “I am sorry for that. You should have had them.”
The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct.
“Some one is coming,” said the prowler, with the movement of a man who is taking his departure.
The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him.
“You have saved my life. Who are you?”
The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:—
“Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get out of the scrape yourself.”
“What is your rank?”
“Sergeant.”
“What is your name?”
“Thénardier.”
“I shall not forget that name,” said the officer; “and do you remember mine. My name is Pontmercy.”