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Book 2: Éponine

Sketching Les Mis Chapter 4.2.1 - The Field Of The Lark

The boy is lost.

Marius moved out immediately because 1- he didn't want to go back to the house after the incident, understandable 2- he didn't want to have to do with the trial of Thénardier so he left without giving an address. He moved into Courfeyrac's new house. In my translation he doesn't say "I have come to sleep with you" which makes me sad.

Javert came by the Gorbeau building but he was gone, and he couldn't find him because he didn't remember his name. But you know, he could ask the landlady? And he had help moving there I mean it shouldn't be hard to find Courfeyrac ? Idk It doesn't seem like Javert is super interested in Marius atm

Marius is borrowing five francs a week to send to Thénardier in prison. He is out of work, his daydreaming is stopping him from getting to work again. He started going to an abandoned field where a murder happened because it's called "Field Of The Lark" which is all he knows about Cosette now. He lost all hope of finding her so he hangs on to almost superstition.

But rest assured, Hugo makes sure to tell us that Marius isn't out of his mind. And his wit is sharper and his judgements more sincere, he's aware of the world. He's just... lost.

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Sketching Les Mis Chapter 4.1.2 - Badly Sewed

1. It's him! His majesty the Pear!

2. Okay so first off, I read "badly sewed" and thought it had to do with the Sewer Digression somehow before I read it a second time and I was trying very hard to understand what those two things had to do with each other.

3. This chapter had Victor Hugo giving a lot of punches in the face of the bourgeoisie. Basically he said that the bourgeois statesmen, satisfied with being in power, took their seats and by that, they halted the revolution. (He also mentioned he doesn't consider the Bourgeoisie a social class because what defines the Bourgeoisie for him is their conformism, and that is not in itself a condition of class in his opinion. That's... a weird way to look at class but tbh I wish he had said more about that because I think he might be onto something specially since nobility and Bourgeoisie in those days were more easily separated and a Bourgeois in the eye of the government is more like a peasant than a noble. Money and means is not necessarily what Victor Hugo uses to describe social class. I think I better keep that in mind for later).

Anyway, they sought out another sovereign to replace the last one. Louis-Philippe D'Orléans was a safe choice (unrelated note: Orléans is one of the two main families that make the Brazilian monarchy and Idk how related Louis-Philippe is to our kings but it's a fun fact for ya). I mean compare this portrait of Charles X with Louis-Philippe and tell me this pear isn't a bourgeois king:

Lafayette crowned Louis-Philippe and that was that. There is also a weird bit that makes it seem like Hugo is saying the separation of church and state is bad because? It gives more power to the king? Idk what Victor Hugo is talking about like, half the time

4. Victor Hugo defines the time of the July monarchy as a halt. A double state of perpetual rest and perpetual vigilance. No progress and a fear of revolt. "A halt supposes battle yesterday and battle tomorrow."

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