#les mis rarepairs

[lesmisrarepairdaily]

The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️ Les Amis Polycule (Marriedcade) ❤️

Yes, all of them.

After all, what's more romantic than dying together in a fight for a better future?

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Yes (only unrequited to some extent)

No

I can’t even name all of them

Voting ended onJun 7

Photo by Michael Le Poer Trench

[ruedesfillesducalvaire]

All black text is taken from the book. Other image and text sources are listed below.

🎨 Eugene de Blaas – A Nun's Flight of Fancy

🎨 Gabriel von Max – The Seeress of Prevorst

🎶 The Lumineers – "Gloria"

🎶 Dry the River – "New Ceremony"

🎨 Gabriel von Max – The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich

🎨 Henry William Pickersgill – The Nun

🎶 Natalie Merchant – "Kind & Generous"

🎶 Michel Polnareff – "Ballade pour toi (Ce que je cherche est en toi)"

🎨 Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann – A Wounded Danish Soldier (detail)

🎶 Dawn Landes & Piers Ficcini – "Heaven's Gate"

🎬 Mädchen in Uniform (1958), screencaps from Pinterest

🎶 Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (although I recommend Joan Baez's version)

🎬 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), screencap from Pinterest

🎶 Hozier, "Work Song"

🎬 Novitiate (2017), screencaps from Pinterest

🎶 Dry the River, "Weights & Measures"

🎨 Theodor Grust – Red Cross Nurse

🎨 Hermann Kaulbach – Sacrificial Candles

🎨 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette with a Rose (detail)

🎨 Julius von Klever – Bouquet of Cornflowers

🎨 George Elgar Hicks – A Sister's Consolation (detail)

@lesmisshippingshowdown a web weave post for fantine/simplice 🩷

[badassindistress]

[trans: Won't you turn towards me?]

Fun fact, Paul Gavarni was actually a Turnchetta fan!

Personally, I'm a big fan of how he changed the intensity of the shading for Musichetta, who embraces her dark grief, and Turning Woman #3, who turns away from it (and her).

This is a steal for the Les Mis Shipping Showdown 2025 ( @lesmisshippingshowdown ). Images used are these two Gavarni prints:

have I ever mentioned that I love drawing folds in fabric? this was a lot of drawing folds in fabric.

Okay, now I can go back to what I actually intended to do today...

[vivalamusaine]

Ok but what about Combeferre/Jehan?????

Combeferre/Jehan is so soothing to me. I feel like they’d be an autumn together.

Lots of ugly sweaters

Jehan drags Combeferre to poetry slam events, very, very rarely Combeferre will take the stage and just absolutely blow everybody out of the water with a short and simple speech thats absolutely devastating

They definitely have a vintage stamp collection

Thrift store and second hand bookshop dates

Jehan will scribble down random things Combeferre says from time to time because they love the way he’s able to so distinctly make a point. He binds this into a homemade book called “Combeferre Colloquialism’s” and gifts it to him for their anniversary

Reading together underneath a tree by a river and falling asleep in the afternoon sun

[lesmisrarepairdaily]

The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️ Jean Valjean/Robert ❤️

If you have never seen the 1952 adaptation, hear me out. (If you did, chances are you're already sold on this idea.)

Who is Robert, you may ask? "I have read the brick multiple times, there is not a single Robert in there", you might be about to protest. Well, the movie adaptation of 1952 dared to ask what not many have dared: what if there are not enough characters in Les Mis? What if Valjean... had a husband?

The defining trait of the 1952 movie is that every man falls in love with Valjean at first glance. Robert is no exception to that. He runs a pottery studio - one day, a strange man comes in there, insults his product, then beats him in arm wrestling. Of course he falls in love. Madeleine gives him a few pointers, and together they transform his little shop into a successful factory.

Years later, having recieved the proposition to become a mayor, Madeleine comes clean to Robert about his past - only for Robert to reveal that he knew that since day one, and it changes nothing for him. After Arras, Valjean signs the factory to him, and entrusts him with Cosette's care.

After leaving the convent, Valjean and Cosette move back in with Robert. Valjean continues to confide in Robert about everything. Robert continues to be extremely protective - when Valjean and Javert arrive at their home with half-dead Marius, Robert tries to strangle Javert.

I cannot stress enough how canon Valjean's marriage to his buff potter husband Robert is. At least in the scope of this one adaptation.

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Yes (but only unrequited)

No

I am NOT reading all that (breaking the mod's heart)

Voting ended onMay 18

[lesmisrarepairdaily]

The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️Grantaire/Jean Valjean❤️

"Just imagine the dynamic. Jean val Jean is old enough to be R's father and carries so much faith for humanity and for people. Meanwhile, R is lost, drowning in cynicism, and all he needs is an older man to take care of him and tell him there is still good in the world. Jean val Jean would actually listen to him instead of dismissing him, while R, even if he wouldn't want to listen to Jean val Jean, might eventually soften up to him.

This is for the age gap and daddy kink enjoyers, if that's not clear."

Submitted by Anonymous

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (unironically)

Yes (but only unrequited)

No

Their love is just one more lie

Voting ended onMay 1

Drew Sarich as Grantaire, Drew Sarich as Jean Valjean

[lesmisrarepairdaily]

The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️Enjolras/Javert❤️

Unstoppable force vs immovable object. They cannot change the other’s minds but Im sure in the process they will make each other worse

Age gap toxic doomed enemies to enemies (lovers) yaoi 😂👍

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (unironically)

Yes (but only unrequited)

No

I’m not interested in men with ponytails

Voting ended onApr 17

Submitted by @viktor-frankenstein

Mark Uhre as Enjolras, Earl Carpenter as Javert

[lesmisrarepairdaily]

The Les Mis Rarepair of the day is …

❤️Enjolras/Hugo Victor❤️

Look at Enjolras proudly showing off his boyfriend … Mods’ agenda of Enjolras/old men continues

Do you ship it?

Yes (ironically)

Yes (genuinely)

Yes (one-sided)

No

As Hugo Victor is blind in one eye, so am I blind in my heart

Voting ended onJul 6

Ian McKellen as Hugo Victor, Will Richardson as Enjolras