#claquesous

[ghaasy]

Some more ✨️

[ghasy1]

What if I said Les Mis art in 2024, what if I said Valvert?

[kim-the-miserable-rat]

LES MISERABLES INCORRECT QUOTES

(PART 4 - I love making this shit soooo much)

MONSIEUR THENARDIER

CLAQUESOUS

PATRON MINETTE+ THENARDIERS

ENJOLRAS

BOSSUET

GAVROCHE

NATIONAL GUARDS vs BARRICADE BOYS

(about) JEAN VALJEAN

GRANTAIRE

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

Uh.. no... no, i don't think that's right... just an inkling of a feeling, though...

[awholelotofsad]

pov: you’re getting mugged

[maglorslostsilmaril]

more fics of enjolras beating the shit out of claquesous please 🙏

iv.xii.viii

[lesmisscraper]

The Four Heads of Patron-Minette. Volume 3, Book 7, Chapter 3.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[dolphin1812]

The porter’s murder is terrifying and graphic; he couldn’t see what was happening, and Hugo tells us how the bullet passed through him. The barricade now has an element of horror that can’t be forgotten.

I shouldn’t have used the word “terrifying” for Le Cabuc’s act, because Enjolras is terrifying, too. He just forces this man down! And he kills him so calmly! This what ��capable of being terrible” really means – he’s caring to his friends and loves the people, but he’s willing to do dark things for his cause, and he’s resolute in doing so (and he even says “terrible” to describe his actions in some translations!).

When Enjolras told Grantaire to leave because he was “dishonoring” the barricade, he was operating the same way he is here. Le Cabuc sullied the barricade’s integrity with murder, so he was executed. But Enjolras condemns himself as executioner, too, because he believes violence is abhorrent (“Death, I make use of thee, but I abhor thee”). His act is just in his eyes, yes, but it’s just in an “old” order that yields to “necessity.” He wants none of that to exist! And so he thinks he must die, too, because now he is tainted by the violence of the old world. His speech is moving, but it’s tragic. The hopeful side is one he excludes himself from entirely. 

Combeferre is the first to say he’ll join him, which is moving for two reasons. One (and most generally), it’s a sign of how much they care about each other. Enjolras hadn’t said what his fate would be, but Combeferre offers to share it immediately, regardless of how bad it is! Secondly, Enjolras’ view of justice here has likely been influenced by Combeferre: “the good must be innocent,” and Enjolras can’t see himself as “innocent” after what he did. Therefore, he is no longer “good,” and cannot see himself in that perfect world. And Combeferre isn’t the only influence! He says “the human race,” not “France,” suggesting that Feuilly’s broader perspective may have gotten to him. But Combeferre’s influence is the one that condemns him.

This may sound like a critique of Combeferre (that sort of life-long punishment wasn’t his intention – it resembles the prison system), but it’s also important to keep in mind that while these are beloved characters to us, they’re also symbols. To those who despised protests for being messy and violent, what could be more appealing than someone who rejects that aspect so entirely that he disciplines the barricade and condemns himself for what he’s done? It’s difficult to say the barricade is full of “troublemakers” in the face of Enjolras’ principles, and it encourages those who simply want peace to sympathize with him (a revolutionary) most of all. 

And Le Cabuc was probably Claquesous! It would make sense with how he was a stranger to those who supposedly knew him, maintaining his air of mystery. And it means there really were a lot of police spies, with two known (possible) ones at just one barricade! Claquesous’ violence may have even been intentional if he was there as a spy, trying to turn the people against the barricade by making it needlessly violent.

[thepiecesofcait]

Look upon this fine collection, crawled from underneath a stone.

[ueinra]

Les Misérables, French Comic by Houy Raymond (1953)

I always feel happy when I see some adaptations that appreciate them and show them all even though I don't usually care about them so much.. but I LOVE SEEING THEM.

[ghaasy]

What if I said Les Mis art in 2024, what if I said Valvert.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Composition of the Troupe, LM 3.7.4 (Les Miserables 1925)

Patron-Minette,—such was the name which was bestowed in the subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, Patron-Minette signifies the morning, the same as entre chien et loup—between dog and wolf—signifies the evening. This appellation, Patron-Minette, was probably derived from the hour at which their work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, “Who did it?” demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: “Perhaps it was Patron-Minette.”

[wilwywaylan]

Aaaaand there they are, all of them ! Can you believe it took me more than one year to do all that, starting with the sketches !

I love them all ! but I think my favourite is probably the Jehan one.

ID texts in the alt description.

[kim-the-miserable-rat]

EMCEE FROM "CABARET" AND CLAQUESOUS FROM "LES MIS" HAVE THE SAME VIBES. I will not elaborate.

(this is a self indulgent post, forgive me citizens)

[victor-frankensimp]

This user is a Claquesous and Gueulemer apologist

[victor-frankensimpart]

Character design of this wonderful man by @hyacinthusart