#m. myriel

[piierogis]

To honor the end of book 1 at @lesmisletters, and to prepare for the rest of Les Mis, which is of course entirely about Bishop Myriel's various adventures... the Myrielverse

[rainbowhowlxd]

Reading Les Mis makes me wanna go out and buy little sticky notes and highlighters and stuff to annotate the shit out of the book because honestly it really deserves it but alas my copy is actually my father's and he'd be pissed 😞

[court-du-coeur]

I'm bored during a presentation let's liveblog the new translation of Les Misérables

1 - myriel😘 a good man I-VI

[christine donougher] it has extensive footnotes! i could finally understand what is going on!!!

aw hell yeah no gatekeeping the names of things in this one

ICONIC opening 😂😭 we immediately know what we are in for with m. victor hugo

me when i run away from the US and am observing events back home 😭 (jk im going down with the ship)

monsieur that is a french version of a spanish word no se dice eso

haha that's a fun sentence in this translation. also i think it applies to many events & people in this book

so he did the "look at your cousin THEY behave" 😂😭

🔥🔥❤️‍🔥 oh m. myriel i forgot how cool you are

white man SHOCKS other white people by saying noble things in fluent regional french dialect!!!

victor hugo, finishing writing this: ahh a good day's work time to visit the brothel 😊

no but seriously what was his cognitive dissonance. i mean i have no problem with his having tons of sex but his characters sure would seem to

gottem

my HEART

im in a weird place rn re: christianity but. if more priests/pastors were like our man m. myriel? 🥲🥲🥲

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

incredible. also 19th century puffer jacket equivalent?

hugo does this whilst writing les mis except his deep meditation concerns, of course, not The Lord but napoleon,, sewers,, convents etc.

someone get this woman a gofundme 😡

also i just. idk i haven't read a classic novel in ages and i love the fact he's just listing, in detail, all the furniture [and the desired furniture] of a side character who appears only in the first few chapters. we are all just along for the ride

"i want to see the simple visualisation. is that what you have, or do you have three long and intricate paragraphs?" "that is correct. i have a simple visualisation.."🌵🌵🌵

chekov's six silver forks and spoons and large ladle

BEAUTY IS AND TRUTH BUT SEEMS babeyy

i would say i'd read a whole book about m. myriel but... what else is this?

chekov's person whose name is a burden to him,,

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Cravatte, LM 1.1.7 (Les Miserables - Takahiro Arai)

He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound at the residence of his “good friends,” the shepherds. He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to chant a Te Deum pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. “Bah!” said the Bishop. “Let us announce our Te Deum from the pulpit, nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves.” They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop’s cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d’Embrun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, “From Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu.” “Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?” said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, “To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop.” “Monseigneur,” murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. “God—or the Devil.” The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, “God!” When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest’s house in Chastelar he rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting for him, and he said to his sister: “Well! was I in the right? The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.”

[overwhelmedandlonely]

reading the brick fully for the first time and the priest is so funny? like genuinely making me chuckle. i love him

[queen-of-spoilers-zvonchy]

love guillotine as a symbol, every man sees in it what he wants, and when bishop sees it as something that doesn't let your remain neutral, it is the reflection of his own thoughts on whether he'll have to act on his beliefs in future

"The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicate; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral".

M.Myriel also starts thinking that if we, as a society invented machine to do God's work, that is, decide who lives and dies, haven't we gone too far? Isn't it time for a change?

"The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted."

“I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?”

[vickyvicarious]

Madame Magloire had once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: “Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets.” “Madame Magloire,” retorted the Bishop, “you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful.” He added after a pause, “More so, perhaps.”

I just really like this line.

[egaliteliberte]

Les Mis Characters as weird Photos I found on Pinterest, Part 4 (I think)

Part 1, 2, 3, 4 5

Grantaire:

Marius:

Enjolras:

Javert:

Valjean:

Bonus - Bishop Myriel: