#lesgle

[potatosonnet]

In my dreams you love me back

[jazzyjuno]

day 3! @lesmis-prompts

jbm is actually SO cute

[jbm-week]

One week 'til J/B/M week 2024!!

Writers ready your keyboards, artists ready your pens, from April 21st to 27th 2024 we will dedicate each and every day to our favourite Les Mis polycule: Joly/Bossuet/Musichetta. Here's how you can get ready:

- mark your calendars: April 21st - 27th 2024

- follow @jbm-week

- follow the hashtag #jbm week 2024

- start creating 💕

Guidelines

All types of fanworks are welcome, but please refrain from using Al

NSFW is allowed and we will tag anything that's NSFW properly when reblogging it, along with any other large triggers: eg. blood, etc.

Prompts

We will have optional prompts/themes for each day for added inspiration and for anyone who wants to follow along daily! Keep an eye out for the prompt list coming later this week 👀

Edit: Prompt list is here

[benevolenterrancy]

what is a man but a miserable pile of assorted hobbies?

enjoy R participating in a bit of recreational savate

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

Reblog. I need to inspect all of you under a microscope

[sejrart]

“Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!”

Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: “What do you want?” which crossed a “Where are you going?”

“To make a barricade,” replied Courfeyrac.

“Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!”

“That’s true, Aigle,” said Courfeyrac.

And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue de la Chanvrerie.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet, LM 3.4.2 (Les Miserables 1972)

Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. I said to myself hastily: ‘Here’s a brave fellow who is going to get scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. He’s not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to Blondeau!’ At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and repeated for the third time: ‘Marius Pontmercy!’ I replied: ‘Present!’ This is why you were not crossed off.” “Monsieur!—” said Marius. “And why I was,” added Laigle de Meaux.

[elijah-loyal]

les amis pinterest boards!!

FINALLY got around to making pinterest boards for my Les Amis Middle Eastern (Jordanian) high school AU fic here!! (NOTE: they still go by their last names in the fic, but I had a fun time coming up with first names for them all)

Musichetta Keaton

Marius Pontmercy

Antoine Lesgle

Clément Courfeyrac

Jack Bahorel

Daoud Feuilly

Robin Joly

Ambrose Enjolras

Étienne Combeferre

Gavroche Thenardier

Cosette (Euphrasie) Fauchelevant

Jehan (Jean) Prouvaire

Éponine Thenardier

Fahad-Rayyan (R) Grantaire

Laila (Lei-Lei) Grantaire

[omni--unicorn]

Possible additions to the 9:

* Gavroche

* Marius

* Musichetta

* Éponine

* Cosette

* Montparnasse

* Others?

[dolphin1812]

They’re here at last!!!

I love all of Les Amis, but their introductory paragraphs have also been pretty thoroughly analyzed - @everyonewasabird and @fremedon have pretty comprehensive posts on them from previous Brickclubs. Rather than go through them individually, then, I’ll try to point out some general trends that would be relevant to Marius (given that we meet them as soon as he’s kicked out of his house, we can assume there’s a connection):

The first major issue is the legacy of the French Revolution (1789) and the Terror (1793). All of the characters we meet here (with the exception of Grantaire) are attached to the legacy of the former, but they’re divided over the latter. Enjolras, for instance, is compared to Saint-Just – a more radical figure from that time period – and with his “warlike nature” and link to the “revolutionary apocalypse,” he’s definitely more in the tradition of ‘93 than ‘89, even if he’s attached to both. Combeferre, on the other hand, fears that kind of violence, only finding it acceptable if the only alternative is for things to stay the same. Like Marius’ newfound Bonapartism, all of their ideas come out of the clash and evolution of thought after the Revolution and the French Empire under Napoleon, placing each Ami in a similar position to him as they work out their ideas. All of them, though, came to a different conclusion than Marius, prioritizing the Republic over the Empire. At the same time, they’re all distinct from each other, too, revealing the diversity in French republican thought. With his limited exposure to political ideas outside of royalism (and now, idolization of Napoleon), the myriad veins of republicanism that the Amis offer broaden up the political sphere of the novel significantly.

On top of that, they’re a group; they can learn from each other in a way that Marius hasn’t had a chance to. Even Grantaire, who claims to not believe in anything, has friends, and while he distances himself from specific ideologies, his jokes illustrate that he’s familiar with them (for example: “He sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles”). Marius doesn’t have friends or people to really work through ideas with. Oddly enough, the most similar structure to this that we’ve seen so far is the royalist salon. The key difference (aside from the obvious) is the chance to learn from different perspectives, whether that’s based on variations in republicanism, in priorities (conflict vs education, the local vs the international), or both. They’re not even all defined by their politics. Courfeyrac (who easily has the most insulting character introduction in the book) is defined by his character and personality first, with his political ideas mainly being a given from his participation in this group. These variations in emphasis, then, not only show us the diversity of their views, but the varying intensities with which they hold them (as in, you could talk to Courfeyrac about something that isn’t political, but you couldn’t do that with Enjolras) and how they’re kept together in spite of their disagreements (a common goal – a Republic – and many fun and socially savvy members). All of these factors serve to give a sense of liveliness as well, contrasting sharply with the “phantoms” of the royalist salon.

Les Amis aren’t very diverse class-wise, but they’re still better than the salon. Bahorel and Feuilly, at least, aren’t bourgeois or aristocrats.

Feuilly also brings us to the international level, far beyond Marius’ early attempts at imagining himself as part of a country. Focusing on the partition of Poland in particular, Feuilly advocates for national self-determination in all lands under imperial rule. The idea that a people should govern themselves was key to republican thought more broadly in that time (nationalism really took shape in the 18th-19th centuries), but to Feuilly, this isn’t just an issue of nationalism, but of tyranny:

“There has not been a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, approved, counter-signed, and copied, ne variatur, the partition of Poland.”

The word “despot” ties this back to France in a way, with his rejection of despotism as it affects Poland possibly implying a similar anger at the same phenomenon in France. The Bourbons at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 were, after all, the same Bourbons who ruled during the Restoration. A quick note on Lesgle: I didn’t get the joke around “Bossuet” the first time I read this book. Then, I had to take a class on the French monarchy, and I was assigned a text by Bossuet of Meaux, court preacher to Louis XIV and fierce proponent of absolutism. His name seemed familiar, but it took me a while to think to check Les Mis? And now I think calling Lesgle Bossuet because he’s Lesgle (like l’aigle=eagle) of Meaux is one of the funniest jokes in this book.

[orbitingapollo]

[potatosonnet]

Barricade boys

[whorejolras]

wip whenever

thank you for tagging me @television-bodies 🙏🏻

the challenge is to share a snippet of a wip 🚧 as it so happens i just started a new wip for JBM week! like an hour ago 😭

it's inspired by the fact that i reblogged this post complete with the tags to @jbm-week accidentally, and then @combeferres-mothematics and I were lol'ing about it being the first unofficial JBM week prompt and riffing on the idea as a J/B/M meetcute in the revolution mojo dojo casa house chat 😂

I'm setting it in the trashbag Brunswick au bc, well the post. so I guess this will kick off that au lol. Bossuet is spotted shoplifting by Joly and Musichetta, who let him know the security is onto him and then help him get away 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏿🧑🏻‍🦯

here's the first page:

tagging @syrupsyche @belovedhomo @combeferres-mothematics and @pilferingapples also tagging @softerhour to share a glimpse of fanart wip 👀🔫

[jbm-week]

Introduction

Welcome to J/B/M week 2024! This post should have any information you may want to know (& if it doesn't just send an ask)

The date for this year's event is April 21st to 27th 2024. If you're a planner (unlike me, but I commend you) You may want to get started! :D

Guidelines

All types of fanworks are welcome, but please refrain from using AI

NSFW is allowed and we will tag anything that's NSFW properly when reblogging it, along with any other large triggers: eg. blood, etc.

Prompts

Check out the full JBM Week 2024 prompt list here

Fic Rec List

All fics tagged "#JBM week 2024" on tumblr and AO3 will be added to our JBM Week 2024 Collection on AO3 and to a JBM Week 2024 Fic Masterlist post here on tumblr. If you don't want your fic added please clearly say so in the tags or description.

Tags

The tag for the week is #JBM week 2024, we'll check the tag at least once a day to see if there are any new works and reblog them, and you can ping this blog too. And if I still don't find your fanwork, ask box is open, and so are dms, so just send me a link and I'll reblog it!

Fanart we reblog will be tagged "#JBM week fanart" and "#JBM week 2024 fanart" and fanfic will be tagged with "#JBM week fanfic" and "#JBM week 2024 fanfic"

Late works are also welcome if you don't get yours finished in time, I will keep an eye on the tag for as long as I remember as well.

Ask box is always open for questions/suggestions!

Have fun, and happy J/B/M week! :D

[cashandandrogyny]

My friend has renamed bossuet as bussy-les because she couldn’t pronounce bossuet and I told her about him being lesgle n the musical and so bussy-les is his name now

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

the part of 1972 where good “friends” joly and lesgle talk about their silly girlfriend