The Project Gutenberg eBook of Les Misérables

1. Les Misérables
2. Preface
3. Volume I: Fantine
4. Book First—a Just Man
5. Chapter I—m. Myriel
6. Chapter Ii—m. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
7. Chapter Iii—a Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
8. Chapter Iv—works Corresponding to Words
9. Chapter V—monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
10. Chapter Vi—who Guarded His House for Him
11. Chapter Vii—cravatte
12. Chapter Viii—philosophy After Drinking
13. Chapter Ix—the Brother as Depicted by the Sister
14. Chapter X—the Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
15. Chapter Xi—a Restriction
16. Chapter Xii—the Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
17. Chapter Xiii—what He Believed
18. Chapter Xiv—what He Thought
19. Book Second—the Fall
20. Chapter I—the Evening of a Day of Walking
21. Chapter Ii—prudence Counselled to Wisdom.
22. Chapter Iii—the Heroism of Passive Obedience.
23. Chapter Iv—details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier.
24. Chapter V—tranquillity
25. Chapter Vi—jean Valjean
26. Chapter Vii—the Interior of Despair
27. Chapter Viii—billows and Shadows
28. Chapter Ix—new Troubles
29. Chapter X—the Man Aroused
30. Chapter Xi—what He Does
31. Chapter Xii—the Bishop Works
32. Chapter Xiii—little Gervais
33. Book Third—in the Year 1817
34. Chapter I—the Year 1817
35. Chapter Ii—a Double Quartette
36. Chapter Iii—four and Four
37. Chapter Iv—tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
38. Chapter V—at Bombarda’s
39. Chapter Vi—a Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
40. Chapter Vii—the Wisdom of Tholomyès
41. Chapter Viii—the Death of a Horse
42. Chapter Ix—a Merry End to Mirth
43. Book Fourth—to Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power
44. Chapter I—one Mother Meets Another Mother
45. Chapter Ii—first Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
46. Chapter Iii—the Lark
47. Book Fifth—the Descent
48. Chapter I—the History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
49. Chapter Ii—madeleine
50. Chapter Iii—sums Deposited with Laffitte
51. Chapter Iv—m. Madeleine in Mourning
52. Chapter V—vague Flashes on the Horizon
53. Chapter Vi—father Fauchelevent
54. Chapter Vii—fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
55. Chapter Viii—madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
56. Chapter Ix—madame Victurnien’s Success
57. Chapter X—result of the Success
58. Chapter Xi—christus Nos Liberavit
59. Chapter Xii—m. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
60. Chapter Xiii—the Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
61. Book Sixth—javert
62. Chapter I—the Beginning of Repose
63. Chapter Ii—how Jean May Become Champ
64. Book Seventh—the Champmathieu Affair
65. Chapter I—sister Simplice
66. Chapter Ii—the Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
67. Chapter Iii—a Tempest in a Skull
68. Chapter Iv—forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
69. Chapter V—hindrances
70. Chapter Vi—sister Simplice Put to the Proof
71. Chapter Vii—the Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
72. Chapter Viii—an Entrance by Favor
73. Chapter Ix—a Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
74. Chapter X—the System of Denials
75. Chapter Xi—champmathieu More and More Astonished
76. Book Eighth—a Counter-Blow
77. Chapter I—in What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
78. Chapter Ii—fantine Happy
79. Chapter Iii—javert Satisfied
80. Chapter Iv—authority Reasserts Its Rights
81. Chapter V—a Suitable Tomb
82. Volume II: Cosette
83. Book First—waterloo
84. Chapter I—what Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
85. Chapter Ii—hougomont
86. Chapter Iii—the Eighteenth of June, 1815
87. Chapter Iv—a
88. Chapter V—the Quid Obscurum of Battles
89. Chapter Vi—four O’clock in the Afternoon
90. Chapter Vii—napoleon in a Good Humor
91. Chapter Viii—the Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
92. Chapter Ix—the Unexpected
93. Chapter X—the Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
94. Chapter Xi—a Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow
95. Chapter Xii—the Guard
96. Chapter Xiii—the Catastrophe
97. Chapter Xiv—the Last Square
98. Chapter Xv—cambronne
99. Chapter Xvi—quot Libras in Duce?
100. Chapter Xvii—is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
101. Chapter Xviii—a Recrudescence of Divine Right
102. Chapter Xix—the Battle-Field at Night
103. Book Second—the Ship Orion
104. Chapter I—number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
105. Chapter Ii—in Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
106. Chapter Iii—the Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
107. Book Third—accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
108. Chapter I—the Water Question at Montfermeil
109. Chapter Ii—two Complete Portraits
110. Chapter Iii—men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
111. Chapter Iv—entrance on the Scene of a Doll
112. Chapter V—the Little One All Alone
113. Chapter Vi—which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
114. Chapter Vii—cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
115. Chapter Viii—the Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
116. Chapter IX: Thénardier and His Manœuvres
117. Chapter X—he Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
118. Chapter Xi—number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
119. Book Fourth—the Gorbeau Hovel
120. Chapter I—master Gorbeau
121. Chapter Ii—a Nest for Owl and a Warbler
122. Chapter Iii—two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
123. Chapter Iv—the Remarks of the Principal Tenant
124. Chapter V—a Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
125. Book Fifth—for a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
126. Chapter I—the Zigzags of Strategy
127. Chapter Ii—it Is Lucky That the Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages
128. Chapter Iii—to Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
129. Chapter Iv—the Gropings of Flight
130. Chapter V—which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
131. Chapter Vi—the Beginning of an Enigma
132. Chapter Vii—continuation of the Enigma
133. Chapter Viii—the Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
134. Chapter Ix—the Man with the Bell
135. Chapter X—which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
136. Book Sixth—le Petit-Picpus
137. Chapter I—number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
138. Chapter Ii—the Obedience of Martin Verga
139. Chapter Iii—austerities
140. Chapter Iv—gayeties
141. Chapter V—distractions
142. Chapter Vi—the Little Convent
143. Chapter Vii—some Silhouettes of This Darkness
144. Chapter Viii—post Corda Lapides
145. Chapter Ix—a Century Under a Guimpe
146. Chapter X—origin of the Perpetual Adoration
147. Chapter Xi—end of the Petit-Picpus
148. Book Seventh—parenthesis
149. Chapter I—the Convent as an Abstract Idea
150. Chapter Ii—the Convent as an Historical Fact
151. Chapter Iii—on What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
152. Chapter Iv—the Convent from the Point of View of Principles
153. Chapter V—prayer
154. Chapter Vi—the Absolute Goodness of Prayer
155. Chapter Vii—precautions to Be Observed in Blame
156. Chapter Viii—faith, Law
157. Book Eighth—cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
158. Chapter I—which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
159. Chapter Ii—fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
160. Chapter Iii—mother Innocente
161. Chapter Iv—in Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
162. Chapter V—it Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
163. Chapter Vi—between Four Planks
164. Chapter Vii—in Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
165. Chapter Viii—a Successful Interrogatory
166. Chapter Ix—cloistered
167. Volume III: Marius
168. Book First—paris Studied in Its Atom
169. Chapter I—parvulus
170. Chapter Ii—some of His Particular Characteristics
171. Chapter Iii—he Is Agreeable
172. Chapter Iv—he May Be of Use
173. Chapter V—his Frontiers
174. Chapter Vi—a Bit of History
175. Chapter Vii—the Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
176. Chapter Viii—in Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
177. Chapter Ix—the Old Soul of Gaul
178. Chapter X—ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
179. Chapter Xi—to Scoff, to Reign
180. Chapter Xii—the Future Latent in the People
181. Chapter Xiii—little Gavroche
182. Book Second—the Great Bourgeois
183. Chapter I—ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
184. Chapter Ii—like Master, Like House
185. Chapter Iii—luc-Esprit
186. Chapter Iv—a Centenarian Aspirant
187. Chapter V—basque and Nicolette
188. Chapter Vi—in Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
189. Chapter Vii—rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
190. Chapter Viii—two Do Not Make a Pair
191. Book Third—the Grandfather and the Grandson
192. Chapter I—an Ancient Salon
193. Chapter Ii—one of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
194. Chapter Iii—requiescant
195. Chapter Iv—end of the Brigand
196. Chapter V—the Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
197. Chapter Vi—the Consequences of Having Met a Warden
198. Chapter Vii—some Petticoat
199. Chapter Viii—marble Against Granite
200. Book Fourth—the Friends of the a B C
201. Chapter I—a Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
202. Chapter Ii—blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet
203. Chapter Iii—marius’ Astonishments
204. Chapter Iv—the Back Room of the Café Musain
205. Chapter V—enlargement of Horizon
206. Chapter Vi—res Angusta
207. Book Fifth—the Excellence of Misfortune
208. Chapter I—marius Indigent
209. Chapter Ii—marius Poor
210. Chapter Iii—marius Grown Up
211. Chapter Iv—m. Mabeuf
212. Chapter V—poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
213. Chapter Vi—the Substitute
214. Book Sixth—the Conjunction of Two Stars
215. Chapter I—the Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
216. Chapter Ii—lux Facta Est
217. Chapter Iii—effect of the Spring
218. Chapter Iv—beginning of a Great Malady
219. Chapter V—divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon
220. Chapter Vi—taken Prisoner
221. Chapter Vii—adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
222. Chapter Viii—the Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
223. Chapter Ix—eclipse
224. Book Seventh—patron Minette
225. Chapter I—mines and Miners
226. Chapter Ii—the Lowest Depths
227. Chapter Iii—babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
228. Chapter Iv—composition of the Troupe
229. Book Eighth—the Wicked Poor Man
230. Chapter I—marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
231. Chapter Ii—treasure Trove
232. Chapter Iii—quadrifrons
233. Chapter Iv—a Rose in Misery
234. Chapter V—a Providential Peep-Hole
235. Chapter Vi—the Wild Man in His Lair
236. Chapter Vii—strategy and Tactics
237. Chapter Viii—the Ray of Light in the Hovel
238. Chapter Ix—jondrette Comes Near Weeping
239. Chapter X—tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
240. Chapter Xi—offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
241. Chapter Xii—the Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
242. Chapter Xiii—solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
243. Chapter Xiv—in Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
244. Chapter Xv—jondrette Makes His Purchases
245. Chapter Xvi—in Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
246. Chapter Xvii—the Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
247. Chapter Xviii—marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-A-Vis
248. Chapter Xix—occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
249. Chapter Xx—the Trap
250. Chapter Xxi—one Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
251. Chapter Xxii—the Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
252. Volume IV: Saint-Denis
253. Book First—a Few Pages of History
254. Chapter I—well Cut
255. Chapter Ii—badly Sewed
256. Chapter Iii—louis Philippe
257. Chapter Iv—cracks Beneath the Foundation
258. Chapter V—facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
259. Chapter Vi—enjolras and His Lieutenants
260. Book Second—éponine
261. Chapter I—the Lark’s Meadow
262. Chapter Ii—embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
263. Chapter Iii—apparition to Father Mabeuf
264. Chapter Iv—an Apparition to Marius
265. Book Third—the House in the Rue Plumet
266. Chapter I—the House with a Secret
267. Chapter Ii—jean Valjean as a National Guard
268. Chapter Iii—foliis Ac Frondibus
269. Chapter Iv—change of Gate
270. Chapter V—the Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
271. Chapter Vi—the Battle Begun
272. Chapter Vii—to One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
273. Chapter Viii—the Chain-Gang
274. Book Fourth—succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High
275. Chapter I—a Wound Without, Healing Within
276. Chapter Ii—mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
277. Book Fifth—the End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
278. Chapter I—solitude and the Barracks Combined
279. Chapter Ii—cosette’s Apprehensions
280. Chapter Iii—enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
281. Chapter Iv—a Heart Beneath a Stone
282. Chapter V—cosette After the Letter
283. Chapter Vi—old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
284. Book Sixth—little Gavroche
285. Chapter I—the Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
286. Chapter Ii—in Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
287. Chapter Iii—the Vicissitudes of Flight
288. Book Seventh—slang
289. Chapter I—origin
290. Chapter Ii—roots
291. Chapter Iii—slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
292. Chapter Iv—the Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
293. Book Eighth—enchantments and Desolations
294. Chapter I—full Light
295. Chapter Ii—the Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
296. Chapter Iii—the Beginning of Shadow
297. Chapter Iv—a Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
298. Chapter V—things of the Night
299. Chapter Vi—marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
300. Chapter Vii—the Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
301. Book Ninth—whither Are They Going?
302. Chapter I—jean Valjean
303. Chapter Ii—marius
304. Chapter Iii—m. Mabeuf
305. Book Tenth—the 5Th of June, 1832
306. Chapter I—the Surface of the Question
307. Chapter Ii—the Root of the Matter
308. Chapter Iii—a Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
309. Chapter Iv—the Ebullitions of Former Days
310. Chapter V—originality of Paris
311. Book Eleventh—the Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
312. Chapter I—some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on This Poetry
313. Chapter Ii—gavroche on the March
314. Chapter Iii—just Indignation of a Hair-Dresser
315. Chapter Iv—the Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
316. Chapter V—the Old Man
317. Chapter Vi—recruits
318. Book Twelfth—corinthe
319. Chapter I—history of Corinthe from Its Foundation
320. Chapter Ii—preliminary Gayeties
321. Chapter Iii—night Begins to Descend upon Grantaire
322. Chapter Iv—an Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
323. Chapter V—preparations
324. Chapter Vi—waiting
325. Chapter Vii—the Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
326. Chapter Viii—many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabuc
327. Book Thirteenth—marius Enters the Shadow
328. Chapter I—from the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
329. Chapter Ii—an Owl’s View of Paris
330. Chapter Iii—the Extreme Edge
331. Book Fourteenth—the Grandeurs of Despair
332. Chapter I—the Flag: Act First
333. Chapter Ii—the Flag: Act Second
334. Chapter Iii—gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
335. Chapter Iv—the Barrel of Powder
336. Chapter V—end of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
337. Chapter Vi—the Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
338. Chapter Vii—gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
339. Book Fifteenth—the Rue De L’homme Armé
340. Chapter I—a Drinker Is a Babbler
341. Chapter Ii—the Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
342. Chapter Iii—while Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
343. Chapter Iv—gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
344. Volume V: Jean Valjean
345. Book First—the War Between Four Walls
346. Chapter I—the Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg Du Temple
347. Chapter Ii—what Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
348. Chapter Iii—light and Shadow
349. Chapter Iv—minus Five, Plus One
350. Chapter V—the Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
351. Chapter Vi—marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
352. Chapter Vii—the Situation Becomes Aggravated
353. Chapter Viii—the Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
354. Chapter Ix—employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
355. Chapter X—dawn
356. Chapter Xi—the Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
357. Chapter Xii—disorder a Partisan of Order
358. Chapter Xiii—passing Gleams
359. Chapter Xiv—wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
360. Chapter Xv—gavroche Outside
361. Chapter Xvi—how from a Brother One Becomes a Father
362. Chapter Xvii—mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
363. Chapter Xviii—the Vulture Become Prey
364. Chapter Xix—jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
365. Chapter Xx—the Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
366. Chapter Xxi—the Heroes
367. Chapter Xxii—foot to Foot
368. Chapter Xxiii—orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
369. Chapter Xxiv—prisoner
370. Book Second—the Intestine of the Leviathan
371. Chapter I—the Land Impoverished by the Sea
372. Chapter Ii—ancient History of the Sewer
373. Chapter Iii—bruneseau
374. Chapter IV
375. Chapter V—present Progress
376. Chapter Vi—future Progress
377. Book Third—mud but the Soul
378. Chapter I—the Sewer and Its Surprises
379. Chapter Ii—explanation
380. Chapter Iii—the “Spun” Man
381. Chapter Iv—he Also Bears His Cross
382. Chapter V—in the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
383. Chapter Vi—the Fontis
384. Chapter Vii—one Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
385. Chapter Viii—the Torn Coat-Tail
386. Chapter Ix—marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
387. Chapter X—return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
388. Chapter Xi—concussion in the Absolute
389. Chapter Xii—the Grandfather
390. Book Fourth—javert Derailed
391. Chapter I
392. Book Fifth—grandson and Grandfather
393. Chapter I—in Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
394. Chapter Ii—marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
395. Chapter Iii—marius Attacked
396. Chapter Iv—mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
397. Chapter V—deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
398. Chapter Vi—the Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
399. Chapter Vii—the Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
400. Chapter Viii—two Men Impossible to Find
401. Book Sixth—the Sleepless Night
402. Chapter I—the 16Th of February, 1833
403. Chapter Ii—jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
404. Chapter Iii—the Inseparable
405. Chapter Iv—the Immortal Liver 68
406. Book Seventh—the Last Draught from the Cup
407. Chapter I—the Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
408. Chapter Ii—the Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
409. Book Eighth—fading Away of the Twilight
410. Chapter I—the Lower Chamber
411. Chapter Ii—another Step Backwards
412. Chapter Iii—they Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
413. Chapter Iv—attraction and Extinction
414. Book Ninth—supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
415. Chapter I—pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
416. Chapter Ii—last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
417. Chapter Iii—a Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
418. Chapter Iv—a Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
419. Chapter V—a Night Behind Which There Is Day
420. Chapter Vi—the Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
421. Letter to M. Daelli

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