Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.
The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon—five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts&mdash...
The year is 1793. In Brittany during the Royalist insurrection of the Chouannerie, a troop of "Blues" (soldiers of the French Republic) encounter in the bocage Michelle Fléchard, a peasant woman, and her three young children, who are fleeing f...
Victor Hugo's unforgettable work, Les Misérables, tells the story of a peasant stealing bread, Jean Valjean. Famous writer Victor Hugo takes readers to the uprising of 1832 and introduces the dirty streets of Paris in this book. Written with a...
