#2.6.2

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Retrobrick: 2.6.2

In which Victor Hugo expects us to be intimately familiar with obscure bits of the history of the Catholic church! His, “those of you who have read Martin Verga will, of course, recall” bit always makes me laugh. Yes Hugo, you are very clever, to have made up cited such a figure. Points for you.

(I do like that he throws in these details, honestly. It just makes me laugh at the same time.)

But the actual point is to situate his imaginary convent of imaginary nuns in a very non-imaginary historical and social context. He likes to do that, to weave fiction and history into a seamless tapestry. It makes for a much more compelling narrative, and, in a book like this, where he’s actively trying to change the course of history, an effective one. You make the world familiar enough to your readers that they know it, and then tweak the details, show them an aspect of their world they’ve never seen, or present them with a possible future that seems entirely within their grasp, if they only reach for it.

Here, of course, he’s not aiming for anything quite as lofty, merely giving us a bunch of background to set up the person Cosette is going to become and also to have Opinions, but it’s all part and parcel of the same deal. (Hugo would have written amazing alternate history, if he’d been into it. He’s got the right balance of attention to detail and willingness to throw out facts that don’t work with his narrative.)

So we learn about the nuns, and their practices in broad strokes. It’s... pretty intense. I wonder how much of this be based on existing orders. I don’t know enough about nuns to say and, honestly, I don’t know enough about Hugo either. It certainly seems plausible enough, but see the aforementioned ‘don’t know enough about nuns.’ Much like with the Bishop, this section and the next one are where my utter lack of Catholic background really impede my understanding of the message.

The key things to take away from this first pass, I think, are the strictness of the rules and the utter lack of men. (Although the pointed note about the coffin under the altar is one of those patented Hugolian, “throw a bunch of details at the reader, including one that is Plot Foreshadowing” passages. Is anyone tracking how many of those we’ve had so far? I can think of several, but I haven’t been keeping count.) These are going to be important themes, both because of the plot and as part of the general philosophical point Hugo is making.

(And especially because of the already much-discussed emphasis on motherhood. Nuns, by definition, are not mothers. But we’ll get to that.)

The other thing he emphasizes, the part that, i think, he actually admires in all of this, is their dedication to service. He admired that aspect of Simplice and Perpetue as well. These nuns do not go out into the world and care for the sick, but they pray for the world, take on all of its sins and sacrifice themselves in order to make amends. It’s very Christ-like and, for someone who believes as strongly in the power of prayer and the Divine as Hugo does, the spiritual equivalent of the work Simplice and Perpetue did.

(This is also the chapter where we learn that brushing one’s teeth is the first step on the SIN-PAVED ROAD TO HELL, a fact which would likely delight every eight-year-old in the world.)

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2.6.1-2.6.4

2.6.1

This is a convent with a physical appearance full of contradictions. The entrance is smiling, the courtyard is pleasant, yet the building itself is somber and tomb like. There is both a feeling that treasure might be found here, as well as the feeling that this place is too gloomy for existence.

I feel like this chapter conveys a lot of Hugo’s feelings about convents. It conveys a very cloistered feeling, it’s a prison/tomb like structure and even this chapter has a very somber mood to it, despite the fact that the people inside are illuminated by the light symbolism. The nuns are good and kind, according to Hugo, but this convent has strict and harsh rules, perhaps what most bothers Hugo, is that this place seems to be devoid of personal love and the nuns are devoting themselves to Jesus and as much as that is a noble quality (though Hugo’s views on Catholicism aren’t favourable), this is still an incomplete love, which is why this dichotomy, in my opinion exists in this chapter. Hugo says there was life in the death, but for him, I feel, without laughter, without cheerfulness, without love/kindness for other people (Bishop Myriel and sassiness comes to mind), this devotion feels like being buried inside a tomb, albeit a tomb with treasure.

2.6.2

I’m not sure what the difference is between the different orders and the nuns? I’m not familiar with Catholicism, so if anyone has already said something about it or knows something about the differences, please let me know.

What I do get from the chapter is that the nuns voluntarily undergo all these hardships, even wearing the woolen chemise that causes fevers to break out and their rule is extremely harsh. Forgive my ignorance once again, I’m not sure why they have to pray like this? They are undergoing deprivations for the love for Christ, I guess, but this order seems so much harsher than the others and I’m not clear why they have to be specifically harsh. They do have democracy in place and get to elect the prioress, but their devotion to the prioress is absolute, and once again this becomes something wrong, maybe?

The reparation too is very strict with no rest in between, why do these nuns and this place give a very living in the prison vibe- from the prison in Toulon where Valjean was- except theirs is for the sins of the world instead of personal sins/crimes and is voluntary, but you get the feeling that it is much too strict, stricter perhaps than love/dedication to God should be? They live in open cells, are not allowed to communicate with family and can only see friends through the gate. How can they live cloistered in such a place, without showing any friendship/love/kindness for each other, even some kind of attachment to a thing or a book is frowned upon, whereas they have devoted themselves to God/Christ and to sacrifice? Is their good doing more harm, according to Hugo? You know it is not good when three nuns have gone mad in such a short span of time, it’s also not healthy, because they are always punishing themselves, humans aren’t meant to live like that. I have no answers and only questions for this chapter.

Sidenote: I love the line, ‘Brushing your teeth is the top rung of a ladder, at the bottom of which is the perdition of the soul.’ 

2.6.3

The nuns have to face all the strict rules, but it does not seem so harsh for the young girls who live in the boarding school attached to the convent, although they still have to abide by all the rules of the convent. It is still pretty strict that even pupils who have left still remember the habits drilled into them. What breaks my heart is that even the little children are not allowed to say goodbye to their mothers or sisters. This seems to cause a moral outrage since the nuns actively discourage love and kindness among themselves and the young girls. Their intentions might be good, but I shudder to think what psychological damage living in a boarding house without the kindness and comfort that the children need to grow up, might be doing to them, especially for the ones who spend years here.  

It’s also as @akallabeth-joie noticed that it takes such a long time for the nuns to take their final vows and they don’t accept widows into their order, which is also surprising. Not to mention that mostly wealthy families are sending their girls to convent ---from my limited search, there appears to be a revival of Catholicism after the French Revolution during Napoleon I’s time and then during the Restoration from 1814 to 1830, which may explain why the wealthy are so connected to Catholicism or at least want to be.    

Sidenote: This is not related, but throughout these chapters, I wonder if this is also Hugo contrasting the bishop with his love and kindness and being vaguely Christian, with the Catholic nuns, who while they mean well and dedicate themselves to the love of Christ, are too strict in everything.  

2.6.4

I really like the chapters with the details of the young girls’ lives that we are invited to share in. The girls fill the rooms with brightness and sweetness, the sound of laughter and birds singing, whereas the nuns stay in shadows, is that a direct light/dark symbolism?  

The gloomy walls are filled with laughter again and the characters and writers from the epics merge with the fairy tales, there is something to amuse everyone, a child’s innocent laughter and play. I also love the little remarks and the stories that the girls make, they are so funny and very childlike, Hugo is really good at writing the little children and understanding that their manner of experiencing the world is different from adults.  I also love the children using a pun for the nun who carries the keys.

My favourite part is the whole sorting of the children into the different houses, (it’s my personal headcanon that Cosette is a caterpillar because she transforms later and also because Hugo never gave us this very important detail). Everything in this chapter is so refreshing from the doom and gloom of the previous chapters. The childrens’ laughter and joy, transforms this place. I think it is not a coincidence that Hugo lists laughter as an important point in the revolution and assigns it to Bahorel, here too, laughter completely transformed this place.

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Hugo details the history, associations, and especially the rules and observances of the Benedictine-Bernadine convent of the Perpetual Adoration on the Rue Petit Picpus.

So, Cosette and Jean Valjean basically managed to land in the most intense and insular convent possible. [Second only to the Carmelites, says Vicky.] On the one hand, this is probably very good for their 'hiding from the police' prospects. On the other... Well, it'll be an experience. Coming from a Catholic background, I can sort of see why this hard rule is appealing to some, but it also sounds exhausting. Can't sleep a full night, no privacy, no uninterrupted thoughts, practically no visitors... The casual way Vicky mentions that 'three went insane' almost seems low after all that.

I do like how Hugs casually worked in his callbacks (visitors' experience, the nun 'at the post') and foreshadowing (all that funeral context) into the overall narrative of the convent. But he left out the other great occupation of this convent: the school. I do sort of wonder how the rules of the nuns affect classes. Do the teachers get assigned night shifts for the prayer rotations? Do other nuns substitute when Mother Nativity has the 4am-4pm atonement block and can't teach the morning math classes? Do the nuns of the GrabBag!Bonus!Convent ever help with the teaching and communal prayer roster or are they all strictly freelance?

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