#Thenardier sisters

[ueinra]

We have received an education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now.

— Les Misérables, Thénardier Sisters Illustrated by Jacques Pecnard (Hachette Editions, 1956)

[lesmisscraper]

Let children just be children...

[expired-applejuice]

Based on:

Dark paradise by Lana Del Rey

Grantaire takes the bullets.

Enjolras pretends to be shot but he was spared. No words were spoken. None could be. Grantaire was choking on his own blood, while Enjolras was trying to keep his sobs quiet. Still they had a conversation. Grantaire smiled, holding Enjolras hand. Enjolras kissed his head while squeezing his hand tightly. He felt useless as Grantaire slowly died in pain.

When the women came to clean, one, who resembled Grantire, found him still clinging on his hand whispering a tearful apology. She too started to weep and helped the young leader up, pulling him into a silent hug. Enjolras apologized for getting blood on her dress, but she said not to mention it.

Days later Marius found the leader in the abandoned Cafe setting in a chair. The place was empty besides the furniture and two school boys. Marius sat across from him. He took note of Enjolras's bloodshot eyes, and his tear stained face. He held a tight grip on his handkerchief as he stared off into the room. He no longer wore his red coat, nor was his hair at his shoulders. No, he wore a black trench coat that was buttoned, with his hair pulled back into a low ponytail.

Marius looked no better with his bullet wound, broken bones, and shattered heart. Cosette, who took care of him, said he had gain some color back but was still awfully pale. His hair seemed to darkened, and he felt like he aged 20 years. He wasn't sure if he was alive without a soul, or just lost.

"What are we to do now?" Enjolras's weak voice broke Marius from his thoughts. He looked back at the blonde, who was still staring into space.

"I'm not sure, brother," Marius answered as they fell back into their silence.

After a sad sigh, Marius turned to the door. He haft expected their friends to walking into the door laughing. He waited for it, but they never came.

Enjolras found that he missed their laugher the most. The roar of it after one of Combeferre's remarks. The not so hidden chuckles when Bossuet trips. The gleeful victory "haha"s when Bahorel or Grantaire won a sparing match. The sneaky snickers that accured when a prank was being played. Their smiles. Their voices. Their presence. Them.

Feuilly always worked hard. Harder than any other in Paris. Joly was so compassionate and helpful to everyone. Jehan Prouvaire was simply a bright star that always helped them get through rough patches. Bahorel would always have your back in the best and worse way. Courfeyrac could influence anyone to do anything, but was still respectable. Combeferre, with his smarts could outwit a sly fox. Bossuet could give some of the best hugs. Grantaire, as much as he hid it, would have done anything for the group. Oh and how could he forget Gavroche? The little guy had more spirit in him than any of them. And poor Eponine, she was tougher than any of the national guards' men.

Enjolras spent so much time on the revolution that he had no idea who or what he was without his friends and movement. Really he didn't want to remember who he was, because it wasn't. It was not him. Not anymore.

"Their funeral is tomorrow," Marius reminded him still looking at the door.

Enjolras finally pulled his eyes towards Marius, "Yeah. Musichetta promised to help cook the food."

"That's nice."

"Yes, and Montparnasse promised to help Bury them."

"I'm thankful for him," Marius looked at him, "How's Grantaire's sister?"

Enjolras looked down at the table, "She saying it wasn't my fault. I'm just glad she agreed to move in with me, you know? With out Grantaire she probably wouldn't be able to make rent."

Marius nodded.

A few months later, Enjolras walked to the graveyard. He said hi to each of his friends, and even Javert, placing a flower on each stone. He stopped at Grantaire, sitting by his headstone in the snow. The blonde, who wore a green heavy coat, pulled out a bottle of wine and placed it by his stone.

"Marius' wedding is today," He said out loud, "I just got back from the tailors. I'm honored to be his best man."

The wind blew into his face making a roar in his ears. It was freezing, but Enjolras didn't leave, "We've helped each other a lot in these past few months, Marius, your sister, Musichetta, Montparnasse, and I. Talked a lot about old times. It's been hard."

Snow started to float softly down around him. It was beautiful and peaceful. "People say we should move on, past the revolution, love, and friendship. They tell us to forget the songs and memories."

Enjolras laid down in the snow, feeling as numb as his legs. He looked at the sky, "Sometimes I close my eyes, you lot are still here. You're drinking your wine. Courf' and 'ferre are talking about something Courfeyrac said to get Combeferre heated up. Joly and Bossuet are talking about Bossuet's soup he made for him. Jehan, Feuilly and Bahorel are singing a song. And 'Poni and Gavroche are happy. I feel save in this place behind my close eyes."

"That's when it scares me. It scares me because when I go to join you one day, will I see you? Will I be punished for causing this to happen? Will you guys want to see me?" Tears fell from the corners of his eyes making his face colder.

He closed his eyes and he was still there, everything was the same. The only difference was Grantaire laying beside him, holding his hand, "Red, you say the stupidest things. We're waiting for you guys."

"Are you really here?"

Grantaire smiled sadly, "I love you Apollo."

Enjolras opened his eyes and he was alone.

"I love you too, Icarus."

[random-ikea-drawer]

ok so i love les miserables

AND I JUST GOT TO SEE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE NORTH AMERICA TOUR (more specifically Montreal! (yes i flew to an entirely different country to see it)) and i am incredibly attached to enjolras and grantaire so here are just things i saw that made my nails dig into my thighs <3 (not just enjoltaire)

oh my dear months old source of no big sad

this is 90% incoherent rambling (SPOILERS)

- Grantaire had long hair and a long coat i think that deserves its own point

- During Red and Black, Grantaire did the old “Don Juan” with the bottle right in Enjolras’ face (he was not impressed)

- In this same song, Enjolras got really close to R’s face during “don’t let the wine go to your brain”

- Again, in Red and Black, when they tossed Grantaire’s bottle to Enj, teasing him, Grantaire grabbed the bottle in a… way… when he was giving it back to him

- Same song 😭 Grantaire was bouncing on a guy’s lap during the first few verses

- In DYHTPS, Grantaire pulled Gavroche aside away from the students crowding Enjolras (this broke my heart, he clearly loves him and doesn’t want him to be in a war)

- “Glad to do a friend a favor” with a very suggestive hand gesture

- In the “dogs will bark flees will bite”, Grantaire pointed a finger at Enjolras, the former getting real close putting his weapon between them. They got REALLY close

- Gavroche pulled the middle finger at Javert lmao

-Eponine fucking died (i knew that already, seen every bootleg and version available, still hit hard)

- During Eponine’s death Gavroche ran onto the stage, closely followed by Grantaire being held onto by Enjolras

- Gavroche tried approaching Eponine (that’s his sister bro :()) but was stopped and held onto by Grantaire. When she died however, Grantaire quickly bent to hug Gavroche, man the grief was so clear with them both.

- After she died, everyone cleared to their positions but Enjolras and Grantaire, seemingly for Enjolras to try and comfort him, but decided against it quickly and pushed past him. Grantaire placed his hand on his chest in mock offense 😭

- When the attack was about to start, Grantaire mocked and toyed with tied up Javert. When Enjolras called for hold, Grantaire threw his arms around Javert with a “yep!” and cue the battle starting immediately when that happened

- During Grantaire’s verse during Drink With Me, it’s back to Enjolras and Grantaire being center stage. Enjolras approached him, held onto his arm and with the same hand moved up to brush R’s hair, which lead to him breaking off the contact and rushing to the other corner of the stage.

-He was followed by Gavroche, who hugged him from behind and then they both fell asleep next to each other :((

- Gavroche fucking died (i knew he did still heartbreaking) and was caught by Enj, who handed him to Grantaire

- During the Gavroche solo, Grantaire stood center stage looking to the crowd, not even flinching when the gun sounded, only turning around when Gavroche was already at the top of the barricade

- He tried shaking him awake :(( then set him down and stared at him :((

- That was until Marius fell, Enjolras rushing to check on him, making Grantaire rush to his side

- R grabbed onto Enj and they both held the back of each other’s necks,, from my angle it looked like their foreheads touched but idk if they would do that but MANNN

-Enjolras fucking died first (no wtf :(( )

- Grantaire fucking died last (BRO.)

- Everyone fucking died bro

- Except Marius and JVJ of course

- Mr Thenardier, instead of singing “This one’s a queer but what can you do”, sang “This one’s a queer, I’ll try it to!” and dipped a guy in the wedding 😭

- The “to love another person is to see the face of god” line always makes me emotional just :((

that’s it haha hopefully y’all enjoy the ramblings, ty for reading this far, i seriously recommend going to watch it if you can it’s truly the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen man 😭 may be biased but i’m serious

[mycurrentobsessionis]

I think "On My Own," which is admittedly very sad on its own, is so much more tragic when you realize that the "him" she's singing about isn't really Marius. Instead, Eponine has built up this savior in her head that's going to come save her from her awful life and projected that role onto the first man to show her kindness. Which is even sadder still when you consider what kindness Marius does show her is impersonal and based on the debt he believes he owes her father.

In a way, it feels less like a song about unrequited love and more like a child grieving the loss of her last shred of innocence -- the hope that she would be rescued like in a fairytale. And why shouldn't she maintain this fantasy? After all, she must remember the Christmas eve long ago when Valjean arrived at her family's inn and bought Cosette an expensive doll (one which she and her sister had also longed for), left coins in her shoe (Cosette had held out hope that she too would get a coin, though the Thenardiers never planned to give her one), and spirited her away. Why shouldn't that happen for her too?

[pyromaniacbibliophile]

Bricktober day 15- Voices

@lesmis-prompts

What people hear through the years

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Have you heard about our new mayor and monsieur l’inspecteur?

Did you hear about Fantine? 

Oh, you know monsieur Madeleine has fled the town?

Those Thenardiers, nasty pieces of work. You heard they stole a girl? 

Stole a little kid they did, use her to do their chores

Would've thought they’ve enough kids already, with the two girls and boy and two more on the way…

I’ve seen her, poor little mite. Looks like she hadn’t eaten for a month

Get to work

Do the chores

Greedy brat

Je t’adore, ma chere Euphrasie

Your mother never wanted you

I’m sorry for how they treat you, ‘sette

Did’ya hear about the man who took the little girl from the Thenardiers? 

He bought her a doll from my shop, didn’t he

Deserves some luck I reckon, poor thing.

.  .  .  

Have you heard the news? The Pontmercy boy’s in love with Cosette Fauchelevent!

You know there’s a revolution soon?

Les Amis, that student group, stirring up trouble again

The people will rise, they say. I don’t believe it, the bourgeois won’t lose power that easily

Lemarque sickens, have you heard? 

Monsieur Fauchelevent’s daughter is marrying that Pontmercy boy, you know?

Where did you hear that? Everyone says he’ll marry the Thenardiers' daughter

I heard Marius Pontmercy was leading a revolution? 

What, Marius lead a revolution? That would be Enjolras, Marius is to soft for leadership.

Lemarque is dead? 

Where did you hear that?

A gamin, just now. Said to spread the word. Reckon it’s Thenardier’s son?

They want riots in the streets and a barricade at rue Saint-Denis!

Who?

The revolutionaries, of course!

Will you join the revolution?

Can’t be any worse than now. You?

Please, I’ll praise the king before I go to a child’s barricade

I don’t know, they have some good ideals

. . .

Have you heard of the revolution? How goes it?

They caught a police spy, you’ll never believe?

They might last the night, but they can’t win

Don’t be so cynical, they have a shot, surely?

It’s over now. They shot the leader last. Even now he lies dead on the top floor of the Musain.

Did you hear the cynic Grantaire died with the leader? 

They loved, I reckon. 

They were too young to die. Maybe we should have helped? 

We have families. They didn’t.

 

Do you know Pontmercy was rescued? 

By who?

You’ll never believe, but they say Fauchelevent! 

I was made to clean the streets with other women. Washing away the revolution. It’ll have to just be stories now. 

But there’s bloody handprints at the Cafe Musain, didn’t you hear?

 

Have you heard, they dragged the body of an inspector from the Seine this morn?

They say it was the police spy from the barricades, but he was shot. Wasn’t he? 

You know, I feel sorry for Azelma Thenardier. 

Both her brother and sister died, didn’t they? 

Heroes, at least. 

Small comfort, a dead hero can’t help their siblings. All know the Thenardiers’ reputation? 

Someone should arrest them. Them and that damned Patron-Minette.

I heard the leader of the Patron-Minette was in love with someone from the barricades..

Doesn’t change a thing though, does it? 

Nothing changes. 

Nothing changes?

Nothing changes...

Nothing changes.

Rien ne change

Non cambia nulla

Nichts ändert sich

Nothing changes. 

(Tourne, tourne, tourne du même côté)

[syrupsyche]

Instead of working on the actual fic, I'm going to be sharing headcanons on my canon era Enjsette siblings au. I would probably mention some parts of it in the fic(s) I'll be sharing but if they never see the light of day, here are some of them! Shoutout to @pumpkinspice-prouvaire for inspiring this post <3

Fantine absolutely adored getting matching EVERYTHING for her kids: that goes for their names (Eugène and Euphrasie), their outfits, and even their hairstyles. She likes to match her hairstyles with them as well :')

Speaking of hair, since Enjolras has the same hair as her, she lets it grow out so that she can comb and style it. He may be 3 years old but he sure has a ton of hair

When they get placed with the Thenardiers, just as how Mme. Thenardier was Cosette's main tormentor, M. Thenardier would be Enjolras'

Other than the canonical heavy labour Cosette had to do, Enjolras would be sent out to pickpocket from the inn's customers and the rest of the town's inhabitants as well

Whenever Enjolras got caught, Thenardier would put on a big act and punish him in front of whoever was the victim ("My sincerest apologies, good monsieur/madame! He must have gotten his nastiness from his good-for-nothing mother.") before taking him away and just punishing him once more for getting caught

(And I'm not saying this is where Enj would get his immensely deep-rooted sense of injustice from but im NOT not saying that either :))

Cosette and Enjolras would try to take the brunt of the punishments for each other but that just became getting twice the punishment. Eventually, they learnt to just rely and comfort each other afterwards

When Valjean comes to find them, he buys Catherine for Cosette and a toy soldier for Enjolras. He named him Jacques.

Enjolras took longer than Cosette to warm up to Valjean (M. Thenardier was his tormentor after all, so his trust in male authority figures was already low), but eventually grew to trust him once his sister did

Enjolras especially loved hearing Valjean read to him. Valjean read the usual children's books and fairytales but when Enjolras began begging for more, he just gave up and started reading anything he could get his hands on: history, philosophy, etc. (which is why Enjolras turned out Like That)

When they move to the convent, while Cosette went to school, Enjolras stayed in the hut and continued being taught by Valjean (and Fauchelevent!) While Cosette was intended to become a nun, Enjolras was to take over as the convent gardener

Cosette would run up to the hut and chat with Enjolras whenever it was playtime- they would exchange whatever they had learnt during the day

Slowly, Enjolras got his hands on more and more radical books, teaching himself about the current political climate of France and devoting all his time to reading and (attempting to) write his own essays

Eventually, when the family left the convent, it was partially to allow Enjolras to pursue his new-found interest in politics as well as the canonical reason of letting Cosette explore society.

Due to their difference in interests, Enjolras and Cosette grew apart, though all 3 family members clearly still cared for one another deeply

Understanding the dangers of dabbling in politics, he decided to go by a moniker in order to keep his private family away from his public affairs. Thus, Enjolras was born.

This is where my fics begin to pick up from so I guess no more spoilers (??) Hope this made some bit of sense or at the very least, the drawings were enjoyable! :D

[very-serendipitous]

Les Miserables is, at it's very core, a love story.

Sure there's Cosette and Marius but there are so many more stories of love being told with theirs.

Jean Valjean loved his sister and her child so much, he risked his life and freedom to feed them. Then risked it again and again trying to get back to them.

The bishop Myriel loved humanity so much he gave up every penny he could for his people. He gave up his big house to use for hospital beds. He risked his safety to show Jean love. He gave him everything he could to show him the good in the world because Myriel had so much love and compassion for people. He didn't try to convince Jean to stay. He knew he needed his freedom to become a better man.

Fantine loved her child so much that she gave away pieces of herself (hair, teeth, comfort, safety) to keep her alive.

Jean turned his entire life into protecting Cosette when he couldn't save Fantine. That's love.

Even Thenardier's love of himself, fame, money, & power and Javerts love of the law count for something.

Gavroche cared for his younger brothers and for the Amis de l'abc. His died for them and for freedom and for his love of tomfoolery.

Eponine loved Marius enough to give him Cosette's letter, knowing that that piece of paper meant more to him than she did. She died protecting him. It's a tragic, one-sided, unhealthy love but it's still love.

And Grantaire??? He is described as a man who believed in nothing. He didn't believe in the revolution, he believed in Enjolras. He stumbled out of a drunken slumber to die hand-in-hand with Enjolras. He died for the revolution, he died for his friends, and he died for Enjolras.

All of the barricade boys did, really. They loved the future they could see for France. They loved hope. They loved the future generations. That's what revolution is. Loving a future that isn't yet visible and doing all that you can to care for and create that dream.

Les mis is a love story. From the ugliest, most rotten forms of love to the most pure and beautiful.

[ueinra]

[lesmisscraper]

Valjean and Cosette's small talk, returning from the well in the forest. Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

[bobcatmoran]

There's a new stage adaptation of Les Mis going on right now in Japan!

Official website: http://www.lesmise-stage.com/

Official twitter: https://twitter.com/LesMise_stage

I'm not even going to try to translate cast names, because name kanji are HARD, but here's the character names in this cast rundown, left-to-right:

Top row: Jean Valjean, Cosette, Thenardier, Fantine, Enjolras, Government Soldier 2nd row: Eponine, Marius, Little Cosette, Mme Thenardier, Combeferre (with blue scarf), Courfeyrac, Grantaire, Bahorel, Feuilly, Lesgles, Joly, Jean[ne Prouvaire?] 3rd row: Government Soldier, Government Soldier, Gavroche, Gavroche's gang, Gavroche's gang, Gavroche's gang, Gavroche's gang, Gavroche's gang, Sister [Simplice?], Factory Manager, Magloire (yes she's a nun) 4th row: [Patron] Minette Boss, Montparnasse, Gueulemer, Babet, [five women in a row whose name is a slur for Romani people], Fairy (idek) big pics at bottom: Javert, Bishop Myriel

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

Raz Reads Les Mis (XI)

Cosette - Fulfillment of the Promise to the Departed

Cosette, at her scrawny, underfed 8 years old has to walk through the woods alone to get water for the tavern

This is going to get confusing if I keep saying foster family, so foster father Thenardier and foster mother Thenardiess

Their dynamic is described as him being a mouse and her being an elephant

Hugo goes on far too long of a time explaining her appearance to tell is how horrible she is

And I know that was The Thing back then, but it made me see Thenardiess in a far more sympathetic light

Right up until she starts interacting with Cosette

A man wants water for his horse

But there is no water!

So Cosette is given a bucket which she is able to sit down comfortably inside and told to fetch water

It's dark, it's cold, it's dangerous, my little Cosette has nothing on her but a dress of cotton rags

On her way to get water she stops and looks in at a shop selling dolls, thinking about this beautiful doll she calls The Lady

But Thenardiess screams at her to hurry up and Cosette races off

She's conflicted, and considers not getting water at all, as terrified as she is of both her home life and the forest in the night

But eventually the fear of the Thenardiess and her punishment wins

Cosette fills the bucket with water but can barely carry it

She stumbles and falls and the bucket is about to tumble when it is taken from her by a large hand

... Jean Valjean?

Or is it the Boulatruelle we met earlier?

Regardless, man and girl walk back to the tavern

And Cosette asks to carry the bucket in so she won't get beaten

Cosette! This is not the childhood you should have had

She brings in the water, he asks for board

Thenardiess and Thernardier both think he's a poor begger so charge him exorbitant prices

He pays them easily

Strong, rich, hiding his name...

Surely this is Valjean right?

The nigtt goes on and he treats Cosette with kindness, buying the stockings she's knitting so she is able to play, buying her The Lady, who she is so scared of that she can barely believe the doll is for her, putting a large amount of money in her shoe while she is asleep

While this is happening, the foster sisters are dressing up a kitten and it's screaming and crying and the whole thing feels so cruel

Hugo says all of society is represented in the three girls

And it's got some heavy Christian undertones, but it's also written that I can't not side with the pious, spiritually rich but materially poor Cosette

The next day the mystery man buys Cosette from her foster family

Though not without a struggle

And not without Thernardier running after him and Cosette after they leave

He pauses in his pursuit only to think to himself that he should have brought his gun

And Hugo literally says that Satan could learn a thing or two from Thernardier's character

I mean he's horrible and a villain, but demonic?

I'm sure there will be worse people in this book

But Thernardier catches up to them and demands Cosette back

"She's not mine to give, I'm keeping her for her mother."

To which the mystery man hands over a letter

The letter signed by Fantine granting custody of Cosette to the letter's bearer

Fantine I miss you

But that answers definitively that it is Valjean fulfilling his promise to find Cosette

The end of the chapter explains that Valjean swam away and bought himself new clothes etc., everything we can expect from how someone would escape

I've read too much of this book now to realistically hope for anything good, but this chapter makes me want to hope. I want Valjean to raise Cosette in the way that Fantine should have. I want him not to be pursued anymore; I want her to know what genuine love and care feels like.

I forgot to mention above, but the Thenardiess has a son and she dotes over him until his crying gets too much and then she neglects him because she's bored? It's as if she has no acknowledgement of human life outside of where she chooses to see it. The whole situation with the foster family made me so mad, please let Cosette be out of that forever now.

[blueberrywhale123]

Les Mis

So I've had an idea boiling around in my brain for over a year or two now (I lose track) and it's a modern AU for Les Mis because I don't like characters dying.

It's a focus on Valjean because I can't for the life of me find modern ones with a focus on Valjean!

So basically, here it goes:

How Valjean reunited with his sister and her son, ended up with Cosette, and later the Enjolras family.

It opens with Valjean moving into his new apartment, it's really small and cheap but all he can afford. He is trying to build a life for himself in the real world after prison and it is an uphill battle. His sister is in Paris working for all he knows, his last letter with her saying as much before he pushed her away and he stopped answering her until she stopped writing.

He runs into his sister a few months later. Tearful reunion. Lots of apologizing. Justine (That's my name for his sister) tells Valjean that her husband passed away (either a work-related death or a drunk driver) and she lost her job and house and the city took her son (maybe Feuilly??) out of her custody because she was failing to provide for him. Valjean immediately gets to work helping Justine. He takes her in, helps her find a job, he talks to all the legal and government people about how to get custody back. It's a grueling process that takes two years but they get Feuilly back entirely.

Valjean then meets Fantine and Cosette, he is their neighbor in the apartment complex. Valjean notices that Fantine is rarely around - working nights - and Cosette is almost always with the Thenardiers down a floor. Fantine takes ill and Valjean nurses her and takes care of Cosette because he finds out that the Thenardiers were using her for child labor. Fantine starts to get better but soon takes a turn for the worse and she’s dying (don’t know from what yet). She asks Valjean if he can make a will for her that puts Cosette in his care. Valjean gets custody of Cosette when Fantine dies and they live a happy life with Justine and her son MaybeFeuilly. Like Marilla and Matthew raising Anne but to the left a little bit.

Cosette even makes friends with some little girls from school that are from the Combeferre and Courfeyrac family (but neither of the brothers know this until years later.)

Little did either know that Fantine wasn't the only woman whom Felix seduced and left pregnant. Rene Enjolras is the son of Paulette Enjolras, whose good husband passed away from cancer. This spurred Rene to check for diseases in his family line and the DNA test came back with a deadbeat sperm donor and a little half-sister. Valjean and Cosette get the shock of a lifetime when Rene asks to meet when he finds out about them at 17, and Cosette is 15. They start a tentative family relationship. His mother moves to England for something and Enjolras decides to go to university in Paris. This leads to him spending a lot of time with Jean and Cosette, they get really close and he stays with them.

The Les Amis stuff happens eventually and I thought that they could have started an afterschool tutoring program for underprivileged kids. Since they did something like it with adults in the book I think. Basically, Enjolras has the hardest time sharing personal information and so barely anyone finds out about Cosette and company unless it's by accident. Courfeyrac and Combeferre didn't actually know for a fact she was real until they saw her at their high school graduation!

Eventually, all the Les Amis find out about Enjolras' whole other branch in his family tree (most of which isn't blood related) and force their way into the circle.

Basically, by the time I'm done with this, Valjean will have sooooo so so many people around him that his little antisocial anxious heart won't know what to do with them all!

I'm gonna write it! At some point in my life ...

[silusvesuius]

my deep and vivid family t*lvas family lore would be him only having his mom present in his life (Universally accepted fact of him displaying fatherless behavior and "quirks") but that's for the better because his pop was always a deadbeat and probably hit his mama a bit too hard and then just left (maybe before t*lvas was even born). if you call his mom a hoe he Will get upset and deeply offended because it is actually a true fact. i can sense that he probably has like 2 sisters his mama had from another man and they're the skyrimlian equivalent of the Thenardier sisters from les misérables but he's fine because he doesn't even see them that often and isn't an active sibling figure and isn't suited to pay attention to two tweens. he probably would feel more attachment to a random homeless dog he'd find in the streets than to his own blood half-sisters🙄

[psalm22-6]

Adequately done in full for the first time --- It marks a distinctive epoch in the educational work of motion pictures.

In selecting material the authors have made some departures from the original. For example, they cause Valjean to steal a loaf for his sick mother instead of for the seven children of his sister. But for the most part the film drama adheres closely to the Hugo text. The episode of the bishop's candlesticks, the incidents of Valjean's career as M. Madeleine, his flight with Cosette, the intrigues of the Thenardiers, Marius' courtship of Cosette, and the scenes of the rebellion of 1832 are given with fidelity. Glimpses of old Paris and beautiful rural scenes will delight people who have seen France.

The Daily Illini, 28 September 1913

[pyromaniacbibliophile]

The Gamins of Paris (their lost leader)

inspired very heavily by this by @lemurious

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After the lady had left, they snuck out. The whistle had drawn some of the older ones, ones who remembered the Lark of Petit-Picpus, and they brought the others too. There must have been over a hundred of them, gathering in the street.

The guards were long left but they knew that wouldn't last long, they'd be back. The group of gamins were silent. No-one said a word but they all knew what they should do. Henri ran off to find Inspector Marcel, an ex-soldier and one of the few decent policemen in Paris. Out of anyone, he was most likely to distract the guards for them.

None of them wanted to look first. They suspected but didn't know who they might see. Hibou, used to the battered outskirts of Paris where dead animals were common, went first.

When they saw the bodies they bowed their heads. Urchins maybe, but they knew how to treat the dead. A few: Charle, Louie, Enri- those who hung around the Pont au Change recognised the first body as the writer who sat on the balustrades and gave them flowers and sous when they scampered past.

Those- Leo, Jean, Claude- from the university streets remembered the tall student with glasses, a philosopher with enough money to buy them pies and meat from one of the more reputable butchers.

Nearly everyone mourned the one who carried bandages and clean water, 'lending' the gangs books on how to patch themselves up. Lucien stopped next to him awhile, salt tears stinging his eyes. This was the man who was teaching him medicine, who thought he could have a career in doctoring if money would allow it. Living as a gamin you learn death early, but none had felt like this, not even his old nan.

Near the end, the girl lying there caused utter, utter silence. All knew her. Victor spoke, voice cracking. Quiet, but as loud as a gunshot in their heads. 'Someone go for Jacques and Charles. They deserve to see this.' Pierre turned and left without a word, heading down the street and running when he was far enough away that his feet wouldn't echo. No matter the group's thoughts on the youngest Thenardier brothers, no-one there would keep them from mourning their sister.

Finally the last body. The one they all had known would be there. It didn't change the impact. All the gamins in Paris know Gavroche, he's the leader. He back-talks policemen, steals as if he was born to it, and never goes home if he can help it. He boasts of working with the Patron-Minette, laughs at a knife to his throat, helps anyone who wants it. They half-expect him to jump up and tease them for believing it.

'They won't mourn him.' Leo says. It's not a question. Monsieur Thenardier and his wife never cared for their son.

'We will.' Louis murmurs.

'There won't be any gang wars on this day. Never again.' This from Jean, keen as anyone for the scraps between the different gamin gangs- Gavroche's friend.

'We won't forget him.' Rio finishes.

They walk away slowly, singing.

Je suis tombé par terre, c'est la faute à Voltaire Le nez dans le ruisseau, c'est la faute à Rousseau Je ne suis pas notaire, c'est la faute à Voltaire Je suis petit oiseau, c'est la faute à Rousseau....