Jun 26, 2018
Another child atrophies in another kind of darkness.
Jun 26, 2018
First, a bit of extra info about Gillenormand...
I mentioned that he was mis-costumed in the 2012 movie; the novel says that he had kept the style of the Incroyables of the final years of the 18th century. Here's what that looked like:
But here's Gillenormand in the 2012 movie musical. This style is more...
Jun 19, 2018
We meet fan-favorite Gavroche and the gamin de Paris, the character type that he doesn't quite exemplify.
Jun 19, 2018
Here's a pen and ink drawing of Gavroche, drawn by Victor Hugo himself. The writing at the bottom says "Gavroche, at 11 years old."
I've added Gavroche's stomping grounds, per the first paragraph of chapter 13 (III,1,xiii), to our Google map, the first marker in the layer for Part III.
Here is an early...
Jun 12, 2018
Les Misérables moonlights as a sort of macabre sitcom.