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BELLEVUE,…
Gillenormand’s prized room, his boudoir, is papered with fabric made by prisoners. I feel like that sums up everything you need to know about this man right there.
Like, yeah, he’s a conspicuous consumer of opulence and he wears outdated clothes to make a point about Kids These Days, and he only cares about women when they’re there to entertain him, but I’m still stuck on the fabric made by galley prisoners thing. Because this is this book. Things don’t show up in this book by accident. And sure, I expect it was a historically accurate detail that prisoners made luxury goods, a detail which remains roughly accurate today, but this is a book in which prisoners, or at least a prisoner, take center stage as people. It’s not just ‘galley slaves,’ it’s ‘Jean Valjean and all the gamins stolen from their parents.’ It’s ‘Gillenormand’s boudoir is literally a representation of the way the rich exploit and crush the poor for their own useless opulence and extravagance.’ It’s half the social commentary in the book wrapped up in a single sentence fragment.
(It’s that Gillenormand’s aunt lived to be over 100 and Jean Valjean’s sister vanished without a trace.)
I like the little bit of trivia about the streets carrying the names of the capitals of Europe in the Hugo’s time, whereas they used to carry the names of the French cities. Moving towards brotherhood and Fraternity.
Gillenormand seems more a caricature at first glance because he seems to be a man stuck in the previous century. It also seems obvious that Hugo is using him as comic relief as well but the more the chapter goes on, the more he seems like someone who very possibly exists and is this level of annoying and sexist.
His fashions seem different simply because he is the only one who hasn’t moved on. He wears his bourgeois status as a badge of pride, even though he is not of nobility- he aspires to be like them. He might probably be a traitor to his class because of the way he admires the nobility.
He boasts about women as if he’s quite a catch and gives the excuse of having only fifteen thousand francs a year. Fifteen thousand francs is a lot of money considering how Gillenormand also owns his own house and does not need to pay rent, which would be cheap in those times anyway. Bahorel had an annual allowance of three thousand francs from his parents and that was generous. And yet that hypocrite old man wants a hundred thousand francs to have mistresses instead of acknowledging the truth that he is just too old, idiotic and a horrible person to women and people under his care.
In his actions and his words, he is continuously a hypocrite- he says he is dying but is in complete health with all of his teeth intact. He also treats those under him extremely poorly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand who he frequently lashes out at, as well as his servants who he treats with such contempt and frequently belittles.
He wants people to think highly of him and focuses attention on himself and his qualities- which once again Hugo uses to make fun of him by saying that Gillenormand admired himself and thought himself shrewd when he really is not. I find it interesting that Hugo says he would not give nature the same significance- this seems to me to be a slight dig at how Gillenormand would most definitely disapprove of Romanticism. I also don’t really like his ideas of civilisation- it feels that he thinks that Europe is the civilising influence on the rest of the world and I thoroughly detest Gillenormand.
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(This is totally unrelated, but I have been reading some old map posts and I just realised that Marais the place where they live is one of the streets in Paris untouched by Hausmannisation, so they might still have a relatively old feel to them and also Rue des Filles du Calvaire is very near Hugo’s old house which is now a museum. This seems like a very popular district with Hotel de Ville close by as well. The street view of modern 6 Rue des Filles Calvaire).
Anyway, back to the topic, they lived in an old apartment with eccentric décor with fleur de-lys and from the time of Louis XIV. Even his house gives very bourgeois and royalist vibes.
Coming back to more of his characterisation, he was horrible to his wives in favour of his mistresses and I don’t find that surprising, though I feel sorry for anyone who has to live with him or stay under his roof, poor Mademoiselle Gillenormand and poor baby Marius. In the present day he boasts about having had several mistresses just so that people can have an impression that he’s still such a catch even in old age.
Everything he does is to show himself well- he’s so detestable. He also sums up and dismisses the entire French Revolution in one sentence. I really want him to be horrified by meeting all the amis somehow.
On a lighthearted note, this would be the costume of the incroyables which would have been fashionable between 1795-1799, which seems ridiculous with Gillenormand wearing it in 1820s-30s.
About a dozen pages into the volume entitled ‘Marius’ we now get to hear about Marius, as is Hugo standard.
...And so let us begin with a portrait of M. Gillenormand, Marius’s crochety grandfather. I really enjoy how Hugo likens him to a dying breed of sorts. “Formerly they were like everyone else, and now they are no longer like anybody else.” Essentially, he’s an old racist who was charming in his own day, we know the type.
He’s really just a person who has lost his connection to a social and political peer group, due to them literally dying out. It’s reasonable that this would make him crochety; people who occupy a position of relative social power are reluctant to change their world views, and Gillenormand has seen quite a few political shifts come and go. The generation that incubated his views has been replaced several times over and he no longer commands any societal power outside his own house.
He managed to stay current until the years of the Directory, about 30+ years past in present day, and that age weirdly suits his sensibilities. Gillenormand is a waning emblem of old French aristocracy and it makes sense he’s frozen in a time in which young aristocrats were trying to make a cultural comeback. He’s stuck between in the mindset of a monarchist but desperate to retain some social power as time marches on.
New Pokémon HOME update adds the Pokémon Guidebook feature and a way to get Shiny Meloetta for completing your Paldea Pokédex, Kitakami Pokédex and Blueberry Pokédex from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
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BELLEVUE,…
You can now get Shiny Meloetta in Pokémon HOME after completing the Paldea, Kitakami and Blueberry Academy Pokédexes
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Certain issues…
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Pokémon HOME update version 3.2.2 now live to add the Pokémon Guidebook - a new feature allowing players to learn about Pokémon
Pokémon HOME is a special app that enables Trainers to continue their Pokémon adventures beyond a single game system and manage their collection of Pokémon across many of their games. Pokémon HOME is available now on Nintendo Switch, iPhone and iPad (App Store), and Android (Google Play) devices.
What’s New
A new feature allowing players to learn about Pokémon has been added.
Certain issues…
