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Les Misérables follows Jean Valjean, a former prisoner whose attempt to rebuild his life becomes entangled with the harsh justice of nineteenth-century France. Inspector Javert believes law must be obeyed regardless of circumstances, while Valjean’s life gradually becomes a test of whether
The History of a Crime is Victor Hugo’s political history of the coup d’état carried out by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in France in December 1851. Hugo writes as a fierce opponent of the seizure of power and presents the event through the testimony of people who witnessed it and the broader
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