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Welcome to the website for "The Les Misérables Reading Companion," where you'll find all the episodes of this podcast about Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, plus extras relating to what I've discussed there. 

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Episode 19 extras

May 1, 2018

This section put a bunch of new places on our Google map, and will make it especially useful, I think, to look at the 1823 map.

Here is a link to the memoirs of Vidocq (in French and in English), which were a sensation in 1828. And the man himself:

Eugène François Vidocq, portrait by Achille Devéria

 

And here, two of the Contes Fantastiques of Théophile Gautier: "La Morte Amoureuse" in French, translated as "Clarimonde" in English; and "Le Pied de momie" in French, "The Mummy's Foot" in English. 

And Gautier, in all his bohemian splendor (a bit later in life than the publication of these stories):