#baptistine

[jazzyjuno]

"Everything here is yours. What need have I to know your name?"

messy 2am sketches of book 1-2 since im rereading along with les mis letters ^o^

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Prudence Counselled to Wisdom, LM 1.2.2 (Les Miserables 1935)

“We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying ‘come in’; and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no need to ask permission.” At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. “Come in,” said the Bishop.

[lesmisscraper]

The Bishop's Invitation. Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 3.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[ueinra]

Les Misérables, French Comic by Houy Raymond (1953)

I love how the women look in this comic so much.

[dolphin1812]

I really hope that Mme Magloire and Mlle Baptistine sleep as peacefully as the bishop does, because after being robbed, I don’t think they deserve the scare of waking up at three in the morning just to realize the man who stole from them is right outside their door.

[psalm22-6]

The Queensland Times, 7 July 1928

[lesbianvaljean]

extremely enjoying the no-spoilers @lesmisletters discussions in which we all collectively pretend the whole brick is about Bishop Myriel.

having finished A Just Man (Bishop Myriel 1), am now looking forward to the following chapters:

2 Bishop 2 Myriel

Bishop Myriel: Digne Drift

Bishop & Myriel

Bishop 5

Bishop Myriel 6

Myriel 7

The Fate of the Bishop

B9

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I was talking with a friend about the canon named women of Les Mis and decided to experiment to see who those are according to Les Mis fanworks.

Behold: your top ten women of Les Mis.

[aux-barricades]

Also I bet Baptistine and Magloire woke up in horror but decided to keep quiet in their rooms.

An annotated version of the end of today's Les Mis Letters chapter:

the first thing which presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it*, traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions and without troubling himself about the noise**, gained the door, re-entered the oratory***, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode the window-sill of the ground floor****, put the silver into his knapsack*****, threw away the basket, crossed the garden******, leaped over the wall like a tiger*******, and fled.

*clang, clatter **rattle clang clang ***clatter clatter ****clatter clang rattle *****CLATTER CLATTER CLANK CLANK CLANK ******clankclankclankclankclankclank *******kaCLANK

[undead-nothosaur]

I dont know whats wrong with me, this bastard has all of eight lines in the whole show AND YET

Baptistin is everything to me, seeing this snarky bastard holding a bag of groceries made me believe in God again and i can't even tell you why... Also watch Gankutsuou its honestly so good and only 24 episodes

(for the record Bertuccio could also get it but unfortunately Baptistin had the funnier lines and that was enough to sway me)

[gavroche-le-moineau]

I already missed a translation note by a day on day 3 of Les Mis Letters oop

I have a problem with Hapgood's translation of this line in the description of Mademoiselle Baptistine: “...large eyes forever drooping;—a mere pretext for a soul’s remaining on the earth.” In French: “...de grands yeux toujours baissés ; un prétexte pour qu’une âme reste sur la terre.”

The word "drooping" here doesn't seem quite right. I'm following along this year with the FMA translation and it does a much better job with: "...large eyes, always downcast, a pretext for a soul to remain on earth."

The phrase "des yeux baissés" as it appears in the French means "lowered/downcast eyes." I kind of understand what Hapgood means with "forever drooping" but it just sounds to me like Mlle Baptistine is always nodding off or that she has a droopy-eyed look, neither of which are right.

[ofpd]

people love femslash exr but i've never found an eposette fic that gets at the specific idea of them in my head... says a lot about society

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Cravatte, LM 1.1.7 (Les Miserables - Takahiro Arai)

He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound at the residence of his “good friends,” the shepherds. He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to chant a Te Deum pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. “Bah!” said the Bishop. “Let us announce our Te Deum from the pulpit, nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves.” They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop’s cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d’Embrun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, “From Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu.” “Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?” said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, “To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop.” “Monseigneur,” murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. “God—or the Devil.” The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, “God!” When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest’s house in Chastelar he rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting for him, and he said to his sister: “Well! was I in the right? The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.”

[lenievi]

a lot of things just come down to this Spock's comment: I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million.

even Bishop Myriel

[ueinra]

Les Misérables | Mlle Baptistine & Mme Magloire (Illustrated By Renato Guttuso, 1966)

[pilferingapples]

Started watching I Mis 1948 today, and it is. A RIDE.

It starts with Valjean stealing the bread , at which point he is SHOT , apparently to no ill effect, since he's then put to work, shirtless and unmarked, in the galleys

which he tries to escape with an EXPLOSION and STEALING A RAIL CART that he CRASHES INTO A BARRIER before swinging down a cliff and onto horseback!! whence he rushes off again! and is shot AGAIN and the horse...dies?? but NOT HIM

then he leads a prison revolt!!

Unfortunately once he's released, he's rather dull as Valjeans go--the actor basically didn't WANT to play Valjean, with all his inner turmoil, he wanted to be a Dashing Hero!-- to the point that he refused to wear torn clothes, afraid it would ruin his Image to be seen in rags.

(the clothes throughout are pretty good! not Gentleman Jack level maybe, but solidly recognizable for the period. They even give the women bonnets! and period-reasonable hairstyles!)

Javert is also tragically Meh, no menace or sense of presence at all, really; he WOULD be very plausible at being in disguise because even in uniform it's easy to miss that he's there :/

The best part of this adaptation so far is how it handles Fantine's storyline--we see her fired (for always being late , because she's ...going to visit Cosette on weekends??? I am hoping SO HARD that that will pay off in an altered story, I don't need canon faithfulness in this movie, Fantine Be Happy AU ) , and then cut to her walking the street and having her fight with Bamatabois; from there, Valjean steps in--

and then FANTINE GETS TO TELL US HER BACKSTORY, with her own interpretation of it! We get a lovely 1817 flashback, we get to here her sorrow and her determination FROM HER, she gets to take the starring role in her own story and even if the movie screws up everything from this point on, I love it for that.

anyway like I said, most of the Valjean story is pretty Meh, rote stuff performed at an OK level, but we DO get to see Valjean, in his turmoil over Champmathieu, consult his Spiritual Adviser:

SISTER SIMPLICE, SCIENCE NUN!!

(seriously, she DOES take on a more active role in this as his spiritual adviser AND a real medical scientist AND she gets to talk about her faith a little?? this version is doing great by the women in it so far)

ANYWAY that's the first hour of this series gone by and we haven't even had the trial so I have no idea how this is gonna go

We await the results of the Experiment!