#3.1.4

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Chapter 150 - May 30th

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Brickclub: 3.1.4

The gamins are Paris’ children -- they are impossible in any other city. They represent one of the extremes that the city contains, one of the things that makes Paris great. The line about how they are the enemy of prejudice, abuse, ignorance, etc. reminds me of the Parisian as housecat who can turn into  lion at a moment’s notice. The gamin is light hearted and harmless right up until the moment he’s not. “He will grow up” is as much a threat as a statement of fact.

Which might have something to do with why this chapter is called what it is -- he is useful because he refuses to allow the powerful to get away with their nonsense unnoticed. The gamin is a living indictment of the abuses of power and wealth, a creature caused by deep inequality and injustice who is not afraid to drag the system for all it’s worth. In his very existence, the gamin accuses the powerful of caring only for themselves (for how else would they allow so many children to live on the streets?) With his tongue and his irreverence, the gamin makes a mockery of their power by refusing to respect it. In both aspects, he is useful in the same way that the child pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is useful -- he transgresses agreed upon social taboos and forces others to notice them.

[umeed-e-sehr]

3.1.4-3.1.5

3.1.4

Once again, we are reminded that the gamin is a very Parisian figure. Other people have mentioned how the English translations do not do justice to Hugo’s poetic language in these chapters. The distinction between the words badaud and a flaneur in French, is not captured by the gawper here. Monarchy is compared to the badaud and the gamin is the flaneur.

It is an important distinction to make because the badaud is essentially a passive observer while the flaneur is active and intellectual. The badaud absorbs the urban life without thinking too much whereas the flanuer is a reader of urban life (The Flaneur and his City by Richard D.E Burton).  And so, wherever the gamin may be, he will not accept Tyranny, oppression, injustice, etc. passively unlike the monarchy. He will actively strive to change things.  

Through that, Hugo reverses Horace’s saying and turns a worthless kitchen jug into a vase. The little gamin, who may be ordinary, formed from ordinary clay becomes useful and important because he has incredible initiative to change things around him and make them better.  

3.1.5

This chapter also continues the theme of the sauntering flaneur, which the gamin is compared to. But Hugo brings in a delicate balance of the vast expanse of nature as well as the urban life. I’m always interested in how Hugo contrasts and combines both together and does not only talk about nature. He is interested in both nature and humanity and that for him can be found in Paris’ outskirts and faubourgs. Hugo has previously mentioned (Cosette in the woods chapter) his opinions on how nature can also be terrifying, and it is not good to be cut off from society completely. He brings that up again here.

It’s those outskirts of Paris, a little self-contained world that does not go beyond the outskirts of Paris, that is most likely to contain the young runaway children, caught between nature and humanity. I do like the way Hugo is telling this, like a traveller passing through their world, it still has a little bit of a fairy tale feel to it. These children sell him wares and the images of the children remain with him long after he has left. They make the outskirts their playground and while they are living in poverty and deprivation, they still manage to find ways to be children and form a community.

We also get a reference to the young girls here for the first time who are also living in poverty and navigating these spaces like Eponine and Azelma. And obviously like Eponine and Azelma there's the very real threat of young girls getting involved in prostitution because of poverty.

The images of the children makes me emotional, because these children still exist on the streets, where I live, and it absolutely breaks my heart.

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He May Be Of Use

Paris contains both the lounger and the gamin, polar opposites of one another.

“Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin.

The little fellow will grow up.”

[akallabeth-joie]

Brickclub Les Mis 3.1.4

Building on the whole "gamins have good taste" concept from last chapter, now the gamins have good morals. The gamin class comes with a CG allignment, and all gamin are a force for anarchic good. 

[Can we get a Les Mis Monster Manual, pretty please? Remember that teen girls have gaze attacks, and flaneurs can only exist in Paris...]

Anyway, Roussean blank slate feral street kids agree on Hugo's morals, in what to me seems like an appeal to nature defending Hugo's philosophy as much (or more) than it is a description of the children themselves. Also, Paris, because the gamin are Parisian: exclusively Parisian, and Paris in its most essential and natural state. 

Also, and I'm really f'ing confused by Wilbour's talk of "cockneys" (for badaud) because...wtf? I seriously had to go look up the etymology of both terms, because "cockney" has a very limited geographic association, in which Paris plays no part. Wilbour must have been going for a really outdated (ie, 14th-16th century) definition of a cockney as a feckless city-dweller, because there is no other way this makes any sense. Honestly, this would have been a good place for a footnote. Either leave to word untranslated, or aim for a partial match (loafer? sightseer? gawker? spectator?), and then explain the context, because the badaud is a whole f'ing archetype that Hugo's using to make a highly specific contrast.

No second person pronouns.