They know about the revolutionaries dying at the barricades, and how Marius and Cosette marry.įor at least 60 million of them, that’s because they saw the musical based on the novel. They know about Valjean’s redemptive love for his adopted daughter Cosette. They know why the virtuous former thief Jean Valjean goes on the run and is pursued by the obsessive Inspector Javert. Most know the bare outlines of the plot of Les Mis é rables, Hugo’s most celebrated work, whose last chapter was published on this date in 1862. Victor Hugo, the subject of today’s Google Doodle, is one of the most beloved authors that most Americans have never read.
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