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[nibelungsring]

ANNOUNCING MY NEW BOOK ON LES MISERABLES:

"LES MISERABLES" LOCATIONS IN PARIS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE

BY KATIE BARNES

AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON

“Among many other things, “Les Misérables” is Victor Hugo's love letter to the Paris of his youth... His descriptions of its streets and buildings, and the routes the characters take, are almost forensically detailed and accurate.”

If you have ever wanted to know more about the locations in Paris where Victor Hugo says that Valjean, Javert and the other characters walked, this will be for you. Using contemporary and modern maps, photographs, engravings and paintings, this book gives detailed written and illustrated histories for 35 locations connected with the novel, the musical and the life of Victor Hugo, including the sites of the Barricade, the Rue Plumet, the quay where Javert commits suicide, the Cafe Musain, the church where Marius and Cosette are married, the street where Valjean dies, the street where Hugo was nearly killed on the night of the barricades, the Pantheon where he is buried, the place on the river bank where Valjean and Marius emerge from the sewers, and many more. And if you visit Paris in person, the book includes information on travel to each location by Metro, bus and bicycle, together with two suggested walking tours on the Right and Left Banks.

All profits are donated to Acting For Others, which provides financial and emotional support to all those working in theatrical professions, through its network of 14 member charities. I will receive no financial benefit whatsoever.

It's available as a Kindle download for £5.99/$7.99; as a paperback with colour illustrations for £21.50/$28.98; and as a paperback with illustrations in black & white for £12.50/$16.79. 

If you like it, please leave a rating and review on Amazon: if I get more than 10 positive reviews and ratings, Amazon will do more to help me publicise it, which would hopefully mean more sales and more funds raised for Acting for Others. 

These are the links to all three editions on Amazon:

Black & white edition:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCQTHM

Colour edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCNZRZ

Kindle edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4DWJ8LP

I am due to speak about my researches for this book at the Barricades conference in July. I will post more information when available.

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Enjolras has been permitting it for 191 slutty, slutty years

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Update: Enjolras has been getting shot eight times to represent each member of Les Amis for 192 slutty, slutty years

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Update: Enjolras has been dying with a smile that was not ended when the report was heard for 193 slutty, slutty years

[pumpkinspice-prouvaire]

Update: Enjolras has been pressing Grantaire's hand with a smile for 194 slutty, slutty years

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

no offense but like... in revolutionary school, as vicious as musain rule, i got my feelings bruised by the leader in red. And i propped the bar as he told me, "R, you're good for nothing, fool." And i heard every word that he said.

[safrev]

bday commission for my friend @xiao-hudie🌟!

[fangirlmenace]

Earlier I was thinking about the aftermath of the June Rebellion and wondering what exactly would have happened if Les Amis had succeeded. I ran the thought experiment in my head - say the students killed the king, overthrew the government, what would they do next? I decided they would need to elect one of their own to rule France more democratically, fix all of the problems, etc. Do I think they would be successful? No but that's beside the point. But I couldn't decide who I wanted them to elect, hence this poll:

Who of the following should be leader of France?

Marius Pontmercy

Enjolras

Eponine Thenardier

someone else - please rb and tell me!!

Voting ended onJan 27

Reblog for sample size pls :))

oh and I would love to hear your reasoning for why you voted one way or another if you care to explain!!

[grantairity]

combeferre, combeferre, combeferre, combeferre!!! dude's an intellectual, he advocates for education, and he believes in slow, peaceful progress. if anyone should become a leader of france during this tumultuous time, it should be him.

[aaronstveit]

today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

[cupboardgods]

Actual quote was like, "He should have been dancing at the Chaumière, as young people have a moral obligation to do."

One more late contribution to Barricade Week. I think M. Gillenormand is one of my favorite characters from the book. He is not a very good guardian, but everything he does is so funny. I had to pause at the end of this chapter to draw this.

[cupboardgods]

Valjean's death in the final song of the musical pretty much always makes me cry. Once Fantine starts singing, it's over for me. However, when I read this scene in the book? UUUGGHHH!!! I am so vexed by this chapter. It's so bad, I can only laugh.

It's the way Valjean only cares about his children making use of his money, and that he thinks that his last earthly minutes are best spent info-dumping about his factory from 10-20 years ago instead of, you know, anything about himself or Cosette's childhood or Fantine or how/why he saved Marius, or the bishop. He even fails at bragging in this scene and ends up underselling just how successful he really was. This is not the way to convince Marius that you obtained the money legally. These are the nonsensical rants of an extremely repressed old man.

It's been 6 months, but I can't shake the image of Valjean passing out/dying and coming-to/resurrecting repeatedly just to talk about black jet manufacturing practices. I went into the chapter expecting to cry in public/at work and instead I just wanted him to get it over with.

[Also, I really tried to get this comic done before December 30th to pair with @lesmisletters, but missed it by a hair. I originally started this in October so the scene is rewritten from memory.]

[piierogis]

[communismrainclouds]

les miserables is just normal miserables to me.

just a glimpse into how lesbian my mind is becoming.

[nortism]

This remains, to me, the most poignant Les Misérables quote

[theywereschoolboys]

Les Mis Fandom Throwback

Right before the movie came out all of the edits were the character posters. ALL OF THEM

The “Great” Ship War between the Enjolras/Grantaire fans and the Enjolras/Eponine fans was the wildest thing to ever happen. 

Also Eponine/Combeferre was a pretty common ship

There was some really weird stuff with Azelma/Grantaire in the Eponine/Enjolras fics or sometimes Azelma/Feuilly. It was weird

A LOT of fics made Cosette seem like a raging bitch to Eponine

Also a lot of making Marius seem like a complete idiot who didn’t realize how terrible Cosette was and who led Eponine on

Before Courfeyrac/Combeferre there was a lot of Courfeyrac/Jehan which still holds a special place in my heart

Montparnasse was almost always Eponine’s abusive ex-boyfriend

More High School AUs than College AUs

Even though it isn’t explicitly stated, almost all the AUs take place in the US. American High School system/culture

A lot of AUs where Valjean and Fantine raised Cosette together

That’s all I really remember but if you remember anything from 3+ years ago feel free to add on

[theywereschoolboys]

We’re gonna add a little more to this shit show

Grantaire being a full-blown alcoholic

Enjolras completely and utterly hating Grantaire

High School detention AUs

100 million reincarnation AUs

A very large emphasis on Enjolras being in love with “Patria”

Enjolras’ parents always being rich assholes trying to control his life

[theywereschoolboys]

But wait, there’s more:

That “I am argon, I am a gas, has Marius passed chem at last?” post

Marius being Moon Moon

That one audio post where someone who was actually French pronounced all of the Amis’ names and all of the non-French people lost their shit because they’d been mentally pronouncing everything wrong

[kjack89]

[starffis]

[enfernalinferno]

Finally getting into les mis :)

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[aaronstveit]

today i am thinking about the eight bullets that kill enjolras, and how i always see people saying they represent his eight friends to die at the barricade, but when i first read his death what came to my mind was the eight men to escape the barricade alive: valjean, marius, javert, and the five men who are given the national guard uniforms. i think of those eight bullets being meant for those eight men, and enjolras taking them all. he did not change the world in the way he meant, but he changed the world for eight men, and that has to be enough.

[the-reynolds-pamphlet]

hi my name is inspector javert and i'm a cop (that's how i got my name) and i have ebony black hair with gray streaks over my forehead that reaches my eyebrows and icy blue eyes like limpid tears. a lot of people tell me i look like if the dog-son of a wolf was given a human face (AN: if you don't know who that is get da hell out of here!). i'm not directly causative of corruption in the police force but i do represent it because it's a major fucking hottie. i'm a cop but my teeth are straight and white. i'm also a cop, and i go to a town called m-sur-m in france where i serve as an inspector. i'm also a furry (in case you couldn't tell) and i wear mostly my police uniform. i love hot topic and buy all my clothes from there. for example today i was wearing a knee length coat and a big hat and black boots. i was walking outside m-sur-m. it was snowing and raining so there were no criminals, which i was very happy about. father madeleine stared at me. i put my middle finger up at him.

[kostekkaz]

Romo and Juliette...but its enjoltaire