#3.1.8

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

Brickclub: 3.1.8

So we’re back to the political will and inclinations of the gamins. And Hugo is pretty clear that this is actual politically-driven anarchism, not just generalized malcontentedness or mischief making. Sure, the gamins probably aren’t the most politically sophisticated of people, and most of the intricacies of government are not only above their heads but probably not things they really care about, but they still have concrete, definite opinions. And Hugo is all for their being allowed to have those opinions. He clearly admires their convictions and their willingness to make their political position known.

It’s interesting that he doesn’t tie that in more with their death wish, since having anti-government beliefs isn’t always, you know, safe, but I suppose gamins in the streets aren’t necessarily being targeted by censorship laws or free speech repression or whatever. Unfortunately, as several others have already point out, the gamins are pretty powerless to actually change anything. All they can really do is sing rude songs and draw caricatures on the walls. Enough to agitate, perhaps, but that’s it.

(Which plays into the whole ‘the gamins as Paris’ thing? Because Paris, for all that it is the Best City, can’t really do anything without its people. The gamins can witness and, to an extent, record, but they don’t have the power to change.

This feels like something to come back to when we get to Gavroche and the barricade. Someone remind me of that when we get there.)

So we get a cute story about Louis Philippe, because Hugo likes Louis Philippe for... reasons. (I mean, I know there are reasons, but it’s still kind of weird given everything.) It’s kind of entertaining how hard Hugo is already trying to make him just a hometown kind of guy, down with the people and willing to laugh at himself. Like, he’s still King, Hugo. Being willing to laugh at his own caricatures doesn’t change that fact.

Also, foreshadowing! But foreshadowing that seems very true to life -- when your life and liberty depend on not being caught by the cops, I expect you do learn to spot them quick, and memorize their personalities and what you can and can’t get away with around them. It seems like one of those vital life skills passed on from older to younger gamin.

And now, some historical digging under the cut:

I went looking for the Turkey-Bourbon connection, and I found this, apparently written by the son of Arsene Houssaye: “ On surnomme les chevaliers du Lys les compagnons d’Ulysse, et les gardes du corps les garde-dindon.” (x) [We nicknamed the Knights of the Lily the companions of Ulysses*, and the Gardes du Corps the Turkey Guard.] Given that Hugo and Houssaye, pere, were friends, I assume that’s the association he meant there.

I also found this, from a review of caricatures of the time:

“ Faux dévot, mais vrai tyran, Le Dindon, lithographie de Langlumé porte rabat et coiffe ecclésiastiques, mais déchire des papiers marqués « Charte », « Liberté », « Constitution » (x) [False devotee, but true tyrant, the Turkey, lithograph of Langlume wears ecclesiastical garb, but tears apart papers marked ‘Chartre,’ ‘Liberty,’ ‘Constitution.]

So it seems to have been a go-to caricature for not just the King. I’m still not quite sure what turkeys actually meant, in the symbolic language of the time -- that second article suggests that Charles X was compared to lots of animals, not just turkeys. Obviously, anyone with deeper knowledge/better research is encouraged to chime in!

*It’s a better pun in French.

[umeed-e-sehr]

3.1.8

This chapter is definitely much different in the tone from the previous chapters, it is much lighter in some sense. 

It is framed by the anarchy and revolutionary nature of the gamin on one side (we have more examples of how he breaks the law gleefully and has a warning cry to signal his friends)- reiterating how much the gamin work in a community and look after each other. 

Although it is heartbreaking that the two things he wants the most are the two things that elude him: getting his trousers mended and a revolutionary government - seem very reasonable requests. 

On the other side of the chapter are the police upholding the existing laws – and they stand in opposition to the gamin.

I do find it interesting the way, the policemen are described as well.  The gamin study their habits- once again becoming the observers of the city life and obviously they have to keep an eye on the police- this is purely speculation but the law enforcers seem to acquire animal symbolism without being associated with animal imagery here (the terms: slippery, vicious, great, laughable, especially as the gamin use them seem to fit animal imagery to some extent, it feels that way to me, though I may be wrong). In any case they do have a code to identify the policemen which is another part of their language and culture. 

The gamin does not mind singing mass occasionally- while showing disdain for priests. Even if the gamin may, like Voltaire have an indifferent attitude to Roman Catholicism.  

In the middle of gamin and the gendarmes, is the ‘benevolent’ Louis Phillippe, who does not mind kids drawing caricatures of himself- even helps them draw the pear shape and gives them a louis as well. Hugo’s views on Louis Phillippe are pretty favourable - he knew him personally and wrote letters/poems to him, in later chapters he defends him as a person and occasionally as a king, while supporting revolutions. 

But the gamin does try his best, he makes caricatures to mock the government and being a gamin cannot do much more?

So, in this chapter we have anarchy and revolutions on one side, the law on the other and a benevolent monarchy in the middle, which may also sum up Paris in the 1830s.

[intj-greenwords]

So glad he hasn't gone completely to the dark side.

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In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King

In the summer, they like to jump into the Seine. They shout to one another:

“Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here comes the p’lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with you!”

And, at last, 154 chapters into this book, we are finally introduced to our protagonist: the sewers of Paris.

The gamins acquire all sorts of little talents. One time, Louis Philippe saw a gamin drawing a pear on a gate (something the gamins did a lot in that era?), and he gave him a louis. 

If given the opportunity, the gamin will become a chorister and will take the job seriously.

The gamin study the police and take mental notes of each of them.

[akallabeth-joie]

Brickclub Les Mis 3.1.8

The gamin have a lot in common with Bahorel: at the very least, to me, this chapter has a similar feel to Bahorel's introduction. The line about the gamin's two impossible goals (get their trousers mended and overthrow the government) certainly felt like Bahorel being "always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the pavement, then to demolish a government". Also, the anti-clericalism, the loud political gestures... No wonder Gavroche, our gamin par excellence, looks up to Bahorel,  who in many ways is the bigger, older, and more powerful version of the gamin. Also the gamin want mended trousers and Bahorel's an expert on the garment.

Anyway, the king helping the kid with graffiti is a favorite anecdote of mine, for all that it underscores how little power/effectiveness the gamins' protests and mockery have. 

The gamin is "tu" to his peers, and to the passer-by. Wilbour used "ye" and "yer" to show this in the gamin-to-gamin slang, but regular "you" in the words of the passer-by.

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