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[[File:TMWL.jpg|frame|His love is real, but his smile is not.]]▼
| title = The Man Who Laughs
A 1869 [[Victor Hugo]] novel.▼
| original title = L'Homme qui rit
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| author = Victor Hugo
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| publication date = April 1869
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The eponymous protagonist, Gwynplaine, bears a face disfigured by torture into a [[Glasgow Smile|permanent smile]]. As a child, it was done to him in order to punish him for his nobleman father's offense to the king. One night, after being abandoned in the snow, Gwynplaine wanders aimlessly, seeking shelter. He comes across the corpse of a woman who had frozen to death underneath a dead man hanging from a [[wikipedia:Gibbet|gibbet]]. In her arms, he finds a still living, blind baby girl. Eventually, Gwynplaine comes to the home of the charlatan [[Meaningful Name|Ursus]] and his wolf companion [[Meaningful Name|Homo]]. Ursus has pity upon the two orphan children and takes them in.
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