Les misérables. Volume one

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Part One
Fantine

Book 1: An Upright Man

1. M. Myriel
2. M. Myriel becomes Monseigneur Bienvenu
3. Good bishop - hard bishopric
4. Words answering words
5. How Monseigneur Bienvenu made his cassock last so long
6. How he protected his house
7. Cravatte
8. After-dinner philosophy
9.The brother portrayed by the sister
10. The bishop in the presence of an unknown light
11. A qualification
12. Solitude of Monseigneur Bienvenu
13. What he believed
14. What he thought

Book 2: The Fall

1. The night of a day\'s tramp
2. Prudence commended to wisdom
3. The heroism of passive obedience
4. Some account of the dairies of Pontarlier
5. Tranquillity
6. Jean Valjean
7. The depths of despair
8. The waters and the shadow
9. New grief
10. The man awakes
11. What he does
12. The bishop at work
13. Petit Gervais

Book 3: In the Year 1817

1. The year 1817
2. Double quatuor
3. Four to four
4. Tholomyès is so merry that he sings a Spanish song
5. At Bombarda\'s
6. A chapter of self-admiration
7. The wisdom of Tholomyés
8. Death of a horse
9. Joyous end of joy

Book 4: To Entrust Is Sometimes To Abandon

1. One mother meets another
2. First sketch of two equivocal faces
3. The Lark

Book 5: The Descent

1. History of an improvement in jet-work
2. Madeleine
3. Moneys deposited with Laffitte
4. Monsieur Madeleine in mourning
5. Vague flashes on the horizon
6. Father Fauchelevent
7. Fauchelevent becomes a gardener at Paris
8. Madame Victurnien spends thirty francs on morality
9. Success of Madame Victurnien
10. Results of the success
11. Christus nos liberavit
12. The idleness of Monsieur Bamatabois
13. Solution of some questions of municipal police

Book 6: Javert

1. The beginning of the rest
2. How Jean can become champ

Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair

1. Sister Simplice
2. Shrewdness of Master Scaufflaire
3. A tempest in a brain
4. Forms assumed by suffering during sleep
5. Clogs in the wheels
6. Sister Simplice put to the proof
7. The traveller arrives and provides for his return
8. Admission by favour
9. A place for arriving at convictions
10.The system of denegations
11. Champmathieu more and more astonished

Book 8: Counterstroke

1. In what mirror M. Madeleine looks at his hair
2. Fantine happy
3. Javert satisfied
4. Authority resumes its sway
5. A fitting tomb

Part Two
Cosette

Book 1: Waterloo

1. What you meet in coming from Nivelles
2. Hougomont
3. The 18th of June 1815
4. A
5. The quid obscurum of battles
6. Four o\'clock in the afternoon
7. Napoleon in good humour
8. The emperor puts a question to the guide Lacoste
9. The unlooked for
10. The plateau of Mont Saint Jean
11. Sad guide for Napoleon; good guide for Bulow
12. The guard
13. The catastrophe
14. The last square
15. Cambronne
16. Quot libras in duce?
17. Must we approve Waterloo?
18. Recrudescence of divine Right
19. The field of battle at night

Book 2: The Ship Orion

1.Number 24601 becomes Number 9430
2. In which a couple of lines will be read which came, perhaps, from The Evil One
3. Showing that the chain of the iron ring must needs have undergone a certain preparation to be thus broken by one blow of the hammer

Book 3: Fulfilment of the Promise to the Departed

1. The water question at Montfermeil
2. Two portraits completed
3. Men must have tome and horses water
4. A doll enters upon the scene
5. The little girl all alone
6. Which perhaps proves the intelligence of Boulatruelle
7. Cosette side by side with the unknown, in the darkness
8. Inconvenience of entertaining a poor man who is perhaps rich
9. Thénardier manoeuvring
10. Who seeks the best may find the worst
11. Number 9430 comes up again, and Cosette draws it

Book 4: The Old Gorbeau House

1. Master Gorbeau
2. A nest for owl and wren
3. Two misfortunes mingled make happiness
4. What the landlady discovered
5. A five-franc piece falling on the floor makes a noise

Book 5: A Dark Chase Needs a Silent Hound

1. The zigzag s of strategy
2. It is fortunate that vehicles can cross the bridge of Austerlitz
3. See the plan of Paris of 1727
4. Groping for escape
5. Which would be impossible were the streets lighted with gas
6. Commencement of an enigma
7. The enigma continued
8. The enigma redoubles
9. The man with the bell
10. In which is explained both Javert lost the game

Book 6: Petit Picpus

1. Petite Rue Picpus, No. 62
2. The obedience of Martin Verga
3. Severities
4. Gaities
5. Distractions
6. The little convent
7. A few outlines in this shade
8. Post corda lapides
9. A century under a guimpe
10. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
11. End of the Petit Picpus

Book 7: A Parenthesis

1. The convent as an abstract idea
2. The convent as a historical fact
3. Upon what conditions we can respect the past
4. The convent viewed in the light of principle
5. Prayer
6. Absolute excellence of prayer
7. Precautions to be taken in censure
8. Faith - Law

Book 8: Cemetries Take What Is Given Them

1. Which treats of the manner of entering the convent
2. Fauchelevent facing the difficulty
3. Mother Innocent
4. In which Jean Valjean has quite the appearance of having read Austin Castillejo
5. It is not enough to be a drunkard to be immortal
6. In the narrow house
7. In which will be found the origin of the saying: Don\'t lose your card
8. Successful examination
9. The Close

Part three
Marius

Book 1: Paris Atomised

1. Parvulus
2. Some of his private marks
3. He is agreeable
4. He may be useful
5. His frontiers
6. A Scrap of history
7. The gamin will have his place among the classifications of India
8. In which will be found a charming pleasantry of the late king
9. The ancient soul of Gaul
10. Ecce Paris, ecce homo
11. Ridicule and reign
12. The future latent in the people
13. Little Gavroche

Book 2: The Grand Bourgeois

1. Ninety years old and thirty-two teeth
2. Like master, like dwelling
3. Luke Esprit
4. An inspiring centenarian
5. Basque and Nicolette
6. In which we see La Magnon and her two little ones
7. Rule: Never receive anybody except in the evening
8. Two do not make a pair

Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson

1. An old salon
2. One of the Red Spectres of that time
3. Requiescant
4. End of the brigand
5. The utility of going to mass, to become revolutionary
6. What it is to have met a churchwarden
7. Some petticoat
8. Marble against granite

Book 4: The Friends of the ABC

1. A group which almost became historic
2. Funeral oration upon Blondeau, by Bossuet
3. The astonishment of Marias
4. The back room of the Café Musain
5. Enlargement of the horizon
6. Res Angusta

Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune

1. Marius needy
2. Marius poor
3. Marias a man
4. M. Mabeuf
5. Poverty a good neighbour of misery
6. The supplanter

Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars

1. The nickname: mode of formation of family names
2. Lux facta est
3. Effect of spring
4. Commencement of a great distemper
5. Sundry thunderbolts fall upon Ma\'am Bougon
6. Taken prisoner
7. Adventures of the letter U abandoned to conjecture
8. Even the invalides may be lucky
9. An eclipse

Book 7: Patron Minette

1. The mines and the miners
2. The lowest depth
3. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous and Montparnasse
4. Composition of the band

Notes on the text of volume one