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| title = Les Misérables
| caption = Cosette
| author = Victor Hugo
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| genre = Historical fiction
| publication date = 1862
| source page exists = yes
| wiki URL = https://lesmiserables.fandom.com/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_Wiki
| wiki name = Les Misérables Wiki
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{{quote|''What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the galleys.''}}
'''''Les Misérables''''' is a sprawling epic by [[Victor Hugo]], the seeds of which can be found in some of his earlier, shorter works such as his novel(la) ''[[The Last Day of a Condemned Man|Le dernier jour d'un condamné]]'', which also treats upon the subject of the penal system in France and includes a character that resembles what could later be called an AU-style Valjean. It was made into a very well-known [[Les Misérables (theatre)|musical play]] that has run for nearly thirty years.
The story opens with a recently paroled man named [[The Atoner|Jean Valjean]] arriving on foot in Digne, France, come from the shore-prison at Toulon where he's spent the past nineteen years. He was a desperately poor peasant from Brie who constantly worked -- constantly, no matter how hard the labor or menial the task -- to support his sister and her seven children. One especially bad winter as the eighteenth century was drawing to a close, when he was 25, Valjean could not find work and, in an act of real need as much for his family as himself, he broke into a bakery and stole a loaf of bread.
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