Contents

Volume I. Fantine

Book first.  A just man

• Chapter I.    M.  Myriel
• Chapter II.   M.  Myriel becomes m.  welcome
• Chapter III.  A hard bishopric for a good bishop
• Chapter IV.  Works corresponding to words
• Chapter V.    Monseigneur bienvenu made his cassocks last too long
• Chapter VI.   Who guarded his house for him
• Chapter VII.  Cravatte
• Chapter VIII.  Philosophy after drinking
• Chapter IX.   The brother as depicted by the sister
• Chapter X.    The bishop in the presence of an unknown light
• Chapter XI.  A restriction
• Chapter XII.  The solitude of monseigneur welcome
• Chapter XIII. What he believed
• Chapter XIV. What he thought

Book Second.  The fall

• Chapter I.    The evening of a day of walking
• Chapter II.   Prudence counselled to wisdom
• Chapter III.  The heroism of passIVe obedience
• Chapter IV.  Details concerning the cheese. dairies of pontarlier
• Chapter V.   Tranquillity
• Chapter VI.  Jean valjean
• Chapter VII. The  interior of despair
• Chapter VIII. Billows and shadows
• Chapter IX.   New troubles
• Chapter X.    The man aroused
• Chapter XI.   What he does
• Chapter XII.  The bishop works
• Chapter XIII. Little gervais

Book third.  In the year 1817

• Chapter I.    The year 1817
• Chapter II.   A double quartette
• Chapter III. Four and four
• Chapter IV. Tholomyès is so merry that he sings a spanish ditty
• Chapter V.   At bombarda’s
• Chapter VI.  A Chapter In which they adore each other
• Chapter VII. The  wisdom of tholomyès
• Chapter VIII. The  death of a horse
• Chapter IX.   A merry end to mirth

Book fourth. To confide is sometimes to delIVer into a person’s power

• Chapter I.    One mother meets another mother
• Chapter II.   First sketch of two unprepossessing figures
• Chapter III. The  lark

Book fifth.  The descent

• Chapter I.    The history of a progress in black glass trinkets
• Chapter II.   Madeleine
• Chapter III.  Sums deposited with laffitte
• Chapter IV.  M. Madeleine in mourning
• Chapter V.   Vague flashes on the horizon
• Chapter VI. Father fauchelevent
• Chapter VII. Fauchelevent becomes a gardener in paris
• Chapter VIII. Madame victurnien expends thirty francs on morality
• Chapter IX.  Madame victurnien’s success
• Chapter X.   Result of the success
• Chapter XI.  Christus nos liberavit
• Chapter XII.  M.  Bamatabois’s inactIVity
• Chapter ZIII. The  solution of some questions connected with the municipal police

Book sixth. Javert

• Chapter I.    The beginning of repose
• Chapter II.   How jean may become champ

Book seventh. The  champmathieu affair

• Chapter I.    Sister simplice
• Chapter II.   The perspicacity of master scaufflaire
• Chapter III.  A tempest in a skull
• Chapter IV. Forms assumed by suffering during sleep
• Chapter V.   Hindrances
• Chapter VI.  Sister simplice put to the proof
• Chapter VII. The  traveller on his arrIVal takes precautions for departure
• Chapter VIII.An entrance by favor
• Chapter IX.  A place where convictions are in process of formation
• Chapter X.   The system of denials
• Chapter XI.  Champmathieu more and more astonished

Book eighth. A counter. Blow

• Chapter I.       In what mirror m.  madeleine contemplates his hair
• Chapter II.     Fantine happy
• Chapter III.    Javert satisfied
• Chapter IV.   Authority reasserts its rights
• Chapter V.    A suitable tomb

Volume II. Cosette

Book first. Waterloo

• Chapter I.    What is met with on the way from nIVelles
• Chapter II.   Whougomont
• Chapter III.  The eighteenth of june, 1815
• Chapter IV.  A
• Chapter V.   The quid obscurum of battles
• Chapter VI. Four o’clock in the afternoon
• Chapter VII. Napoleon in a good humor
• Chapter VIII.The emperor puts a question to the guide lacoste
• Chapter IX.   The unexpected
• Chapter X.    The plateau of mont. Saint. jean
• Chapter XI.   A bad guide to napoleon; a good guide to bülow
• Chapter XII.  The guard
• Chapter XIII. The  catastrophe
• Chapter XIV. The  last square
• Chapter XV.  Cambronne
• Chapter XvI.  Quot libras in duce?
• Chapter XVII. Is waterloo to be considered good?
• Chapter XVIII. A recrudescence of dIVine right
• Chapter XIX. The  battle. field at night

Book second. The  ship orion

• Chapter I.    Number 24,601 becomes number 9,430
• Chapter II.   In which the reader will peruse two verses, which are of the devil’s composition, possibly
• Chapter III. The  ankle. Chain must have undergone a certain preparatory manipulation to be thus broken with a blow from a hammer

Book third. Accomplishment of the promise made to the dead woman

• Chapter I.    The water question at montfermeil
• Chapter II.   Two complete portraits
• Chapter III.  Men must have wine, and horses must have water
• Chapter IV.  Entrance on the scene of a doll
• Chapter V.   The little one all alone
• Chapter VI.  Which possibly proves boulatruelle’s intelligence
• Chapter VII.  Cosette side by side with the stranger in the dark
• Chapter VIII. The  unpleasantness of receIVing into one’s house a poor man who may be a rich man
• Chapter IX.   Thénardier and his manœuvres
• Chapter X.    He who seeks to better himself may render his situation worse
• Chapter XI.   Number 9,430 reappears, and cosette wins it in the lottery

Book fourth. The  gorbeau hovel

• Chapter I.   Master gorbeau
• Chapter II.  A nest for owl and a warbler
• Chapter III. Two misfortunes make one piece of good fortune
• Chapter IV. The  remarks of the principal tenant
• Chapter V. A fIVe. franc piece falls on the ground and produces a tumult

Book fifth. For a black hunt, a mute pack

• Chapter I.    The zigzags of strategy
• Chapter II.   It is lucky that the pont d’austerlitz bears carriages
• Chapter III.  To wit, the plan of paris in 1727
• Chapter IV.   The gropings of flight
• Chapter V.    Which would be impossible with gas lanterns
• Chapter VI.   The beginning of an enigma
• Chapter VII.  Continuation of the enigma
• Chapter VIII. The  enigma becomes doubly mysterious
• Chapter IX. The  man with the bell
• Chapter X. Which explains how javert got on the scent

Book sixth. Le petit. Picpus

• Chapter I.     Number 62 rue petit. Picpus
• Chapter II.   The  obedience of martin verga
• Chapter III.  Austerities
• Chapter IV.  Gayeties
• Chapter V.   Distractions
• Chapter VI.  The  little convent
• Chapter VII.  Some silhouettes of this darkness
• Chapter VIII. Post corda lapides
• Chapter IX.   A century under a guimpe
• Chapter X.    Origin of the perpetual adoration
• Chapter XI.    End of the petit. Picpus

Book seventh. Parenthesis

• Chapter I.     The convent as an abstract idea
• Chapter II.    The convent as an historical fact
• Chapter III.   On what conditions one can respect the past
• Chapter IV.   The  convent from the point of view of principles
• Chapter V.    Prayer
• Chapter VI.   The  absolute goodness of prayer
• Chapter VII.  Precautions to be observed in blame
• Chapter VIII. Faith, law

Book eighth. Cemeteries take that which is committed them

• Chapter I.     Which treats of the manner of entering a convent
• Chapter II.    Fauchelevent in the presence of a difficulty
• Chapter III.   Mother innocente
• Chapter IV.   In which jean valjean has quite the air of having read austin castillejo
• Chapter V.    It is not necessary to be drunk in order to be immortal
• Chapter VI.   Between four planks
• Chapter VII.  In which will be found the origin of the saying: don’t lose the card
• Chapter VIII. A successful interrogatory
• Chapter IX.   Cloistered

Volume III. Marius

Book first. Paris studied in its atom

• Chapter I.     Parvulus
• Chapter II.    Some of his particular characteristics
• Chapter III.  He is agreeable
• Chapter IV.  He may be of use
• Chapter V.   His frontiers
• Chapter VI.  A bit of history
• Chapter VII. The  gamin should have his place in the classifications of india
• Chapter VIII. In which the reader will find a charming saying of the last king
• Chapter IX.   The  old soul of gaul
• Chapter X.     Ecce paris, ecce homo
• Chapter XI.   To scoff, to reign
• Chapter XII.  The  future latent in the people
• Chapter XIII. Little gavroche

Book second. The  great bourgeois

• Chapter I.     Ninety years and thirty. two teeth
• Chapter II.    Like master, like house
• Chapter III.   Luc. Esprit
• Chapter IV.   A centenarian aspirant
• Chapter V.    Basque and nicolette
• Chapter VI.   In which magnon and her two children are seen
• Chapter VII. Rule: receIVe no one except in the evening
• Chapter VIII. two do not make a pair

Book third. The grandfather and the grandson

• Chapter I.     An ancient salon
• Chapter II.    One of the red spectres of that epoch
• Chapter III.   Requiescant
• Chapter IV.   End of the brigand
• Chapter V.    The  utility of going to mass, in order to become a revolutionist
• Chapter VI.   The  consequences of having met a warden
• Chapter VII.  Some petticoat
• Chapter VIII. Marble against granite

Book fourth. The friends of the a b c

• Chapter I.     A group which barely missed becoming historic
• Chapter II.    Blondeau’s funeral oration by bossuet
• Chapter III.   Marius’ astonishments
• Chapter IV.  The  back room of the café musain
• Chapter V.   Enlargement of horizon
• Chapter VI.  Res angusta

Book fifth. The excellence of misfortune

• Chapter I.     Marius indigent
• Chapter II.   Marius poor
• Chapter III.  Marius grown up
• Chapter IV.  M. Mabeuf
• Chapter V.   Poverty a good neighbor for misery
• Chapter VI. The  substitute

Book sixth.  The conjunction of two stars

• Chapter I.     The  sobriquet: mode of formation of family names
• Chapter II.    Lux facta est
• Chapter III.   Effect of the spring
• Chapter IV.   Beginning of a great malady
• Chapter V.    Divers claps of thunder fall on ma’am bougon
• Chapter VI.    Taken prisoner
• Chapter VII.   Adventures of the letter u delIVered over to conjectures
• Chapter VIII. The veterans themselves can be happy
• Chapter IX.    Eclipse

Book seventh. Patron minette

• Chapter I.      Mines and miners
• Chapter II.    The lowest depths
• Chapter III.   Babet, gueulemer, claquesous, and montparnasse
• Chapter IV.   Composition of the troupe

Book eighth. The wicked poor man

• Chapter I.      Marius, while seeking a girl in a bonnet, encounters a man in a cap
• Chapter II.     Treasure trove
• Chapter III.    Quadrifrons
• Chapter IV.    A rose in misery
• Chapter V.     A providential peep. Hole
• Chapter VI.    The wild man in his lair
• Chapter VII.   Strategy and tactics
• Chapter VIII. The ray of light in the hovel
• Chapter IX.    Jondrette comes near weeping
• Chapter X.     Tariff of licensed cabs: two francs an hour
• Chapter XI.    Offers of service from misery to wretchedness
• Chapter XII.   The  use made of m.  leblanc’s fIVe. franc piece
• Chapter XIII.  Solus cum solo, in loco remoto, non cogitabuntur orare pater noster
• Chapter XIV.  In which a police agent bestows two fistfuls on a lawyer
• Chapter XV.    Jondrette makes his purchases
• Chapter XVI.   In which will be found the words to an english air which was in fashion in 1832
• Chapter XVII. The use made of marius’ fIVe. franc piece
• Chapter XVIII. Marius’ two chairs form a vis. A. vis
• Chapter XIX.   Occupying one’s self with obscure depths
• Chapter XX.   The trap
• Chapter XXI.  One should always begin by arresting the victims
• Chapter XXII. The little one who was crying in volume two

Volume IV. Saint – Denis

Book first. A few pages of history

• Chapter I.     Well cut
• Chapter II.    Badly sewed
• Chapter III.   Louis philippe
• Chapter IV.   Cracks beneath the foundation
• Chapter V.    Facts whence history springs and which history ignores
• Chapter VI.   Enjolras and his lieutenants

Book second. Éponine

• Chapter I.    The  lark’s meadow
• Chapter II.   Embryonic formation of crimes in the incubation of prisons
• Chapter III.  Apparition to father mabeuf
• Chapter IV.  An apparition to marius

Book third.  The house in the rue plumet

• Chapter I.    The house with a secret
• Chapter II.   Jean valjean as a national guard
• Chapter III.  FolIIs ac frondibus
• Chapter IV.  Change of gate
• Chapter V.   The rose perceIVes that it is an engine of war
• Chapter VI.  The battle begun
• Chapter VII. To one sadness oppose a sadness and a half
• Chapter VIII.The chain. gang

Book fourth. Succor from below may turn out to be succor from on high

• Chapter I.     A wound without, healing within
• Chapter II.    Mother plutarque finds no difficulty in explaining a phenomenon

Books fifth.  The end of which does not resemble the beginning

• Chapter I.     Solitude and the barracks combined
• Chapter II.    Cosette’s apprehensions
• Chapter III.   Enriched with commentaries by toussaint
• Chapter IV.   A heart beneath a stone
• Chapter V.    Cosette after the letter
• Chapter VI.   Old people are made to go out opportunely

Book sixth.   Little gavroche

• Chapter I.     The malicious playfulness of the wind
• Chapter II.    In which little gavroche extracts profit from napoleon the great
• Chapter III.   The vicissitudes of flight

Book seventh. Slang

• Chapter I.     Origin
• Chapter II.    Roots
• Chapter III.   Slang which weeps and slang which laughs
• Chapter IV.   The  two duties: to watch and to hope

Book eighth. Enchantments and desolations

• Chapter I.     Full light
• Chapter II.   The bewilderment of perfect happiness
• Chapter III.  The beginning of shadow
• Chapter IV.  A cab runs in english and barks in slang
• Chapter V.   Things of the night
• Chapter VI.  Marius becomes practical once more to the extent of gIVing cosette his address
• Chapter VII. The old heart and the young heart in the presence of each other

Book ninth. Whither are they going?

• Chapter I.    Jean valjean
• Chapter II.   Marius
• Chapter III. M. Mabeuf

Book tenth. The 5th of june, 1832

• Chapter I.     The surface of the question
• Chapter II.    The root of the matter
• Chapter III.   A burial; an occasion to be born again
• Chapter IV.   The ebullitions of former days
• Chapter V.    Originality of paris

Book eleventh. The atom fraternizes with the hurricane

• Chapter I.    Some explanations with regard to the origin of gavroche’s poetry.
• Chapter II.   Gavroche on the march
• Chapter III.  Just indignation of a hair. Dresser
• Chapter IV. The child is amazed at the old man
• Chapter V.  The old man
• Chapter VI. Recruits

Book twelfth. Corinthe

• Chapter I.    History of corinthe from its foundation
• Chapter II.   Preliminary gayeties
• Chapter III.  Night begins to descend upon grantaire
• Chapter IV. An attempt to console the widow hucheloup
• Chapter V.  Preparations
• Chapter VI. Waiting
• Chapter VII. The man recruited in the rue des billettes
• Chapter VIII. Many interrogation points with regard to a certain le cabuc

Book thirteenth. Marius enters the shadow

• Chapter I.    From the rue plumet to the quartier saint. denis
• Chapter II.  An owl’s view of Paris
• Chapter III. The  extreme edge

Book fourteenth. The grandeurs of despair

• Chapter I.    The flag: act first
• Chapter II.   The flag: act second
• Chapter III.  Gavroche would have done better to accept enjolras’ carbine
• Chapter IV.  The barrel of powder
• Chapter V.   End of the verses of jean prouvaire
• Chapter VI.  The  agony of death after the agony of life
• Chapter VII. Gavroche as a profound calculator of distances

Book fifteenth. The rue de l’homme armé

• Chapter I.    A drinker is a babbler
• Chapter II.  The  street urchin an enemy of light
• Chapter III. While cosette and toussaint are asleep
• Chapter IV. Gavroche’s excess of zeal

Volume V. Jean valjean

Book first. The war between four walls

• Chapter I.     The charybdis of the faubourg saint antoine and the scylla
• Chapter II.   What is to be done in the abyss if one does not converse
• Chapter III.  Light and shadow
• Chapter IV.  Minus fIVe, plus one
• Chapter V.  The  horizon which one beholds from the summit of a barricade
• Chapter VI.  Marius haggard, javert laconic
• Chapter VII. The  situation becomes aggravated
• Chapter VIII. The  artillery. Men compel people to take them seriously
• Chapter IX.    Employment of the old talents of a poacher and that infallible marksmanship which influenced the condemnation of 1796
• Chapter X.     Dawn
• Chapter XI.    The shot which misses nothing and kills no one
• Chapter XII.   Disorder a partisan of order
• Chapter XIII.  Passing gleams
• Chapter XIV.  Wherein will appear the name of enjolras’ mistress
• Chapter XV.  Gavroche outside
• Chapter XVI. How from a brother one becomes a father
• Chapter XVII. Mortuus pater filium moriturum expectat
• Chapter XVIII. The vulture become prey
• Chapter XIX.  Jean valjean takes his revenge
• Chapter XX.   The dead are in the right and the lIVing are not in the wrong
• Chapter XXI.  The heroes
• Chapter XXII.  Foot to foot
• Chapter XXIII. Orestes fasting and pylades drunk
• Chapter XXIV. Prisoner

Book second. The intestine of the leviathan

• Chapter I.     The land impoverished by the sea
• Chapter II.    Ancient history of the sewer
• Chapter III.   Bruneseau
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V.   Present progress
• Chapter VI.  Future progress

Book third. Mud but the soul

• Chapter I.    The sewer and its surprises
• Chapter II.   Explanation
• Chapter III. The “spun” man
• Chapter IV. He also bears his cross
• Chapter V.  In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous
• Chapter VI.  The fontis
• Chapter VII.  One sometimes runs aground when one fancies that one is disembarking
• Chapter VIII. The torn coat. tail
• Chapter IX.   Marius produces on some one who is a judge of the matter, the effect of being dead
• Chapter X.    Return of the son who was prodigal of his life
• Chapter XI.   Concussion in the absolute
• Chapter XII. The grandfather

Book fourth. Javert derailed

• Chapter I

Book fifth. Grandson and grandfather

• Chapter I.    In which the tree with the zinc plaster appears again
• Chapter II.   Marius, emerging from cIVil war, makes ready for domestic war
• Chapter III.  Marius attacked
• Chapter IV.  Mademoiselle gillenormand ends by no longer thinking it a bad thing that m. Fauchelevent should have entered with something under his arm
• Chapter V.   Deposit your money in a forest rather than with a notary
• Chapter VI.  The two old men do everything, each one after his own fashion, to render cosette happy
• Chapter VII. The effects of dreams mingled with happiness
• Chapter VIII. Two men impossible to find

Book sixth. The sleepless night

• Chapter I.   The 16th of february, 1833
• Chapter II.  Jean valjean still wears his arm in a sling
• Chapter III. The inseparable
• Chapter IV. The immortal liver

Book seventh. The last draught from the cup

• Chapter I.    The seventh circle and the eighth heaven
• Chapter II.  The obscurities which a revelation can contain

Book eighth. Fading away of the twilight

• Chapter I.     The lower chamber
• Chapter II.    Another step backwards
• Chapter III.   The y recall the garden of the rue plumet
• Chapter IV. Attraction and extinction

Book ninth. Supreme shadow, supreme dawn

• Chapter I.    Pity for the unhappy, but indulgence for the happy
• Chapter II.   Last flickerings of a lamp without oil
• Chapter III. A pen is heavy to the man who lifted the fauchelevent’s cart
• Chapter IV. A bottle of ink which only succeeded in whitening
• Chapter V.  A night behind which there is day
• Chapter VI. The grass covers and the rain effaces