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#lesmiserables

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Sophia Basaldua-Sun
I read an unabridged translation of Les Miserables, which means I began my experience with a fifty page meditation on a character who goes by the name “Father Bienvenu, as his parish refers to him. Father Bienvenu, the Bishop of a diocese by the time we encounter him, was impoverished by the Revolution, but remains self-sufficient if not wealthy. He devotes his life and his income to doing good in his parish, and while the character dies early in the novel, this good man’s moral and upright life sets the stage for Jean Valjean’s narrative journey.

Father Bienvenu gives Jean Valjean his first place to sleep after he completes his sentence. Valjean, we see, is rejected by all because of his convict’s yellow passport (an identification card).

Despairing of finding a place to stay, Valjean settles down to spend his night in a public square. Father Bienvenu’s. kindness isn’t immediately transformative, a cruel world has left its mark and Jean Valjean defaults to his baser side. But Father Bienvenu’s steady kindness has its intended impact, transforming Valjean into a man who strives to do good in the world throughout the narrative despite steady persecution by the judicial system and the French people, who are shaped by their imperfect society.

QOTD: What is one character in a novel who emblematizes goodness?

#bookstodon #bookstagram #books #bookish #classicscommunity #classicnovel #lesmiserables #victorhugo #cozyreading
#cozyreading
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Leonora Savage

I just have to share this because I have no idea what to do with it now I've seen it.

"The US Army Chorus sang and performed the Epilogue Finale from Les Miserables at the White House Governors Ball hosted by Donald and Melania Trump on February 22, 2025."

Um... I don't think this means what they think it means...

youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?si=x1lZSI

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#LesMiserables#USArmyChorus#DoYouHearThePeopleSing
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Court Cantrell will not comply

2. And the US Army Chorus performed "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Mis.

When the uncultured Nazis in that room figure out that the soldiers were calling the US population to arms with that song, they are going to be PISSED.

youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?si=6lpFpq

#USArmyChorus
#LesMiserables

#RESIST

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Wow! ...found this out…

" — arguably the very first to depict space travel on a scientific basis — the work of French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard...

Bayard is best known today for a sketch of the sad-eyed Cosette sweeping, made for the original edition of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables (1865), and which has adorned playbills since in Claude-Michel Schönberg's hugely popular musical, "Les Mis”.

#musical #art #LesMiserables
pdimagearchive.org/images/b9ca

Public Domain Image Archive‘An Hour’ by Émile-Antoine Bayard from De la terre à la lune (1870)
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Preston MacDougall

@LALegault I don’t mind repeating myself, but the red ribbons shot out of the windows (with a decapitated Marie Antoinette in one) representing the blood 🩸 shed during the #FrenchRevolution - with heavy metal 🎸 background music - was truly *bold*!

And then taking the #Olympic flame 🔥 across the staging of #LesMiserables was incredibly artistic. Wow!

Finally, when they added the #science #history at the end with the cauldron lifted by a hot air balloon. ❤️

#STEM + #Art = #STEAM ✅

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kurtsh

The entire performance just halted. The curtain dropped & the lights came on after 3 audio blasts were emitted from the speakers & the audio cut out.

The theater announced they were pausing the show due to technical difficulties.

Now they announced they WILL be continuing the show.

Not sure if it was feedback that blew out the speakers but it's clear they went through the mains & the backup.

Exciting performance of #LesMiserables at the #Hollywood #Pantages Theater in #LosAngeles!

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