Carlo Chiostri Valjean with Cosette on the wall, escaping the blind alley
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Hi Javert ! Have you met Monsieur Fauchelevent daughter, Cosette yet ?
I’ve met her.
She seems… pleasant.
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imagine one day everyones hanging out and the conversation somehow gets to turn ons/things they fins attractive and cosette is like 'i have a soft spot for when a guy is good with kids' and the next day eponine brings gavroche around and marius goes into full-on cool uncle mode like giving him high fives and lifting him up randomly and shit and everyone is like 'wtf is marius on' and courfeyrac (who had to listen to marius talk about where he was gonna find a kid to impress cosette with his awesome child rearing skills with) is just like 'shhh give him a break hes trying'
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I was suddenly reminded of that scene in Les Mis where Cosette cries for like two hours and Marius stands banging his head a tree because she’s going to England
anyway more people should really read the brick
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200 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1823, Jean Valjean and little Cosette found each other
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The one, in which we witness Valjean scaling a wall using only his muscles. But before that, his situation dramatically worsens as he spots a whole platoon of soldiers led by 'Javert’s tall figure,' which Valjean can easily distinguish from a distance. He has only 15 minutes to arrange his escape before they enter the dead-end alley.
Now it becomes clear why Hugo emphasized the detail about not lighting the street lanterns during moonlit nights, as this fact allowed Valjean to use the rope from the lantern to lift Cosette to the wall. Here, we encounter a strikingly beautiful image of Valjean: 'Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar’s pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in one or the other, according to circumstances.' Even though he mostly relies on the talents of a convict in this chapter, his unwillingness to leave Cosette behind is undoubtedly drawn from the pouch containing saintly thoughts.
To silence Cosette, Valjean employs an effective tactic of threatening her with Mme Thénardier — Cosette’s personal monster, akin to how Javert is a personal monster for Valjean. However, such threats are a terrible act in themselves, as they leave Cosette shocked and speechless, a horror that will take its toll in the next chapters. Poor child.
As Valjean and Cosette make their escape, we catch a fleeting glimpse of Javert ordering his soldiers to search the blind alley and rushing into it.
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Merry Christmas the lesmis fandom!
AnD THiS ChrIsTMaS IS LITERALLY the 200th Anniversary of
VALJEAN-TAKING-COSETTE-FROM-THE-THENARDIERS (1823-2023) !!!
hooray!!!
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