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    Les Miserables Resumen

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    The document provides background information on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, including a summary of the plot and key characters. It describes how the story takes place in various locations in France after the French Revolution, a time when many people were in poverty. The main complications in the story involve Jean Valjean being pursued by Inspector Javert after serving 19 years in prison, as well as the challenges of the revolution and widespread hunger. It provides brief descriptions of the main characters Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, and Javert and lists the major events of the story.

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    The document provides background information on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, including a summary of the plot and key characters. It describes how the story takes place in various locations in France after the French Revolution, a time when many people were in poverty. The main complications in the story involve Jean Valjean being pursued by Inspector Javert after serving 19 years in prison, as well as the challenges of the revolution and widespread hunger. It provides brief descriptions of the main characters Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, and Javert and lists the major events of the story.

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    The document provides background information on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, including a summary of the plot and key characters. It describes how the story takes place in various locations in France after the French Revolution, a time when many people were in poverty. The main complications in the story involve Jean Valjean being pursued by Inspector Javert after serving 19 years in prison, as well as the challenges of the revolution and widespread hunger. It provides brief descriptions of the main characters Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, and Javert and lists the major events of the story.

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    The document provides background information on Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, including a summary of the plot and key characters. It describes how the story takes place in various locations in France after the French Revolution, a time when many people were in poverty. The main complications in the story involve Jean Valjean being pursued by Inspector Javert after serving 19 years in prison, as well as the challenges of the revolution and widespread hunger. It provides brief descriptions of the main characters Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette, and Javert and lists the major events of the story.

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    Les miserables

    Victor Hugo

    There are many places where the story of Les Miserables unfolds but all are stages
    within France, first we know Toulon, the prison where Valjean was for 19 years, the
    second place is the house of a bishop in Digne, the third is Montreuil, in where the
    character begins to develop, after his escape the whole story focuses on Paris
    The story develops after the events of the French Revolution, when the situation of
    people in France was very bad, especially the poor who did not have to eat.
    The French Revolution began with the assault on the Bastille in 1789. The main
    events of Miserables take place in 1832. A different century two years after the
    revolution of July, the monarchy post of Orléans on the throne, under Louis-Philippe.
    The complications in the story are that javert persecutes Jean Valjean, the
    revolution, poverty and hunger.
    The point of view in the story is told from the perspective of an omniscient one. The
    narrator knows what the characters think at all times and what happened to them
    before the story was told.

    Background information that is relevant to the story:


    *Jean Valjean was unjustly sent to prison.
    *The people of France were hungry.
    *Fantine had a daughter and no work
    *Cosette was an orphan girl
    *Jean Valjean leaves prison after 19 years.
    *Valjean is responsible for cosette
    *They escape and they go to paris
    *Javert searches them everywhere.
    *Marius was very in love with cosette

    Events that occurred in history:


    1- Jean Valjean leaves prison.
    2 -Tries to steal silver plates and the person and gives them to have a new life.
    3 -Becomes mounsenior madeline.
    4 -Fantine has to leave her daughter with the thenardier.
    5 -Valjean helps Fantine.
    6 -Javert threatens valjean and searches everywhere.
    7 -Fantine dies.
    8 -Valjean takes care of cosette.
    9 -Jean valjean and cosette go to paris.
    10- Marius falls in love with cosette and she with him.
    11-The revolution explodes.
    12 -Valjean saves marius.
    13 -Javert commits suicide.
    14 -Marius married with cosette.
    15 -Jean Valjean dies.

    Principal characters:
    Fantine​: is a working class girl who leaves her home town to seek her fortune in
    Paris and is the mother of Cosette.
    Jean Valjean​: is an ex-convict and Cosette´s adopter father. He was sent to prison
    for stealing a loaf of bread for hungry child.
    Cosette​: Orphaned girl adopted by Valjean. Smitten with young rebel, marius. she
    goes through dramatic changes, compared other character.
    Javert​: is a police inspector who strictly believes in law and order. He purses Valjean
    tirelessly hoping to take the ex-convict to justice

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