![]() ![]() The revolutionary events described in the novel – such as the barricade scene in which Valjean rescues his adopted daughter’s injured lover, carrying him through the sewers of Paris to safety – are inspired by an uprising in June 1832, early in the reign of Louis Philippe. The plot of Les Misérables begins in 1815 when the main character, Jean Valjean, is released from a 19-year prison and hard labour sentence for stealing a loaf of bread. Bonaparte said so!” The novel claims exceptional status for France because of “the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July 1789. In Les Misérables, he states: “Liberty radiates from France. There are three French revolutions involved: that of 1789, which haunted Hugo’s generation the one in 1830, which falls within the timeframe of the novel and the revolution of 1848, which occurred while Hugo was writing. ![]() ![]() The first draft, painstakingly reconstructed by researchers at the University of Paris 7 and now accessible online, breaks off in February 1848. Hugo began the novel that became Les Misérables (originally Les Misères) in November 1845. ![]()
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