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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 38 extras

Oct 16, 2018

Here's our little buddy Gavroche, showing us around his world in the 2012 movie musical.

I've put a couple of places from this section (l'Orme-Saint-Gervais and the Place de la Bastilee) on our Google map. If you look at the 1823 map and the 1830 map, you can see mention of the Elephant.

Here are pictures of the three successive sites that were at Place de la Bastille. First, the prison:

"Prise de la Bastille," Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel

 

Then, the Elephant:

 

As it might have been - artist unknown

 

1865 drawing for Les Misérables, by Gustave Brion

 

 

And today, the July Column:

File:Place de la Bastille Paris.jpg