Enjolras: the only son of a rich family, aged 22. He is angelically beautiful (Hugo's words, not mine, though I won't argue), like Antinous if that reference means anything to you. Apparently he was really good looking, and not in the Zoolander way. He LOVED the revolution and the republic: "he knew every little detail of the great thing" (648). However, despite his easy looks, he was severe. "He did not seem to know that there was a being on earth called woman. He had one passion only, justice; one thought only, to remove all obstacles" (648) that got in the way of revolution. Combeferre: represents the philosophy side of the group. He "completed and corrected Enjolras" (649). He argued "revolution, but civilization" (649). He is very science-y. "He declared that the future was in the hands of the schoolmaster and busied himself with questions of education" (650). Though he was all for revolution, he "inclined to let progress do her work" (651). (Sorry all of his description is in quotations) Prouvaire/Jehan: he is "addicted to love" (651) unlike Enjolras. Like Enjolras, he is an only son of a rich family. He could be delicate or masculine. He loved music and flowers, wept for the poor woman and child and knew four other languages that he used to read four different poets. "He was fond of strolling in fields of wild oats and bluebells and paid almost as much attention to passing clouds as to passing events" (651). Feuilly: is a fan-maker. He is an orphan, so he taught and still teaches himself everything he knows. While Enjolras is tunnel-visioned about France, and only thinks of France, Feuilly focusses on the outside world and the surrounding countries. He is extremely excited about a "great highway-robbery of 1772" but I could not find anything in Google about that outside of Les Mis headcanons. Courfeyrac: "concerning Courfeyrac, we might almost stop here, and merely say: for Courfeyrac, see Tholomyes" (653). Oh no, not this idiot - I thought we were done with him. (He was the rich student that left Fantine after she had Cosette for the "fun of it") However, Courfeyrac "was a splendid fellow" (654). I have a feeling those last two quotations are contradictions. Bahorel: he likes things to be BIG! Everything has to be big-scale. He hated the lawyers though, taking "hygienic precautions" (654) around the law schools. Oddly enough, despite liking everything to be BIG, he is a loafer; "to err is human, to loaf is Parisian" (654). Hugo isn't very complementary of his own people. Laigle/Bossuet: He is bald. His name means "eagle". He is a bald eagle. Oh Hugo, you do love playing with words. He was very unlucky, but usually cheery and upbeat. He quickly "reached his last sou, [but] never his last burst of laughter" (656). Probably to the disdain of Bahorel, he was on his way to becoming a lawyer. Joly: the group hypochondriac and yet, like Laigle, very joyful to the point of being called Jolllly. (really Hugo, isn't that a bit childish?) All these friends had the same passion that brought them together: revolution, except for one friend: Grantaire Grantaire: "took great care not to believe anything" (657). He is a drinker, and "particularly ugly" (657). (well that's not very nice Hugo) However, he was not without passion. His passion was for Enjolras because he admired his character that Grantaire lacked. Enjolras completed Grantaire, and Grantaire completes my list of these odd friends.
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