Classique de l'annee 2009 dans le domaine Etudes des langues romanes - Francais - Litterature, langue: Francais, resume LIVRE DEUXIEME: LA CHUTE*** I. LE SOIR D'UN JOUR DE MARCHE*** Dans les premiers jours du mois d'octobre 1815, une heure environ avant le coucher du soleil, un homme qui voyageait a pied entrait dans la petite ville de Digne. Les rares habitants qui se trouvaient en ce moment a leurs fenetres ou sur le seuil de leurs maisons regardaient ce voyageur avec une sorte d'inquietude. Il etait difficile de rencontrer un passant d'un aspect plus miserable. C'etait un homme de moyenne...

Classique de l'annee 2009 dans le domaine Etudes des langues romanes - Francais - Litterature, langue: Francais, resume Livre Cinquieme - La Descente*** Chapitre I: Histoire d'un progres dans les verroteries noires*** Cette mere cependant qui, au dire des gens de Montfermeil, semblait avoir abandonne son enfant, que devenait-elle? ou etait-elle? que faisait-elle? Apres avoir laisse sa petite Cosette aux Thenardier, elle avait continue son chemin et etait arrivee a Montreuil-sur-Mer. C'etait, on se le rappelle, en 1818. Fantine avait quitte sa province depuis une dizaine d'annees....

Classique de l'annee 2009 dans le domaine Etudes des langues romanes - Francais - Litterature, langue: Francais, resume LIVRE SEPTIEME: L' Affaire Champmathieu*** Chapitre I: La soeur Simplice*** Les incidents qu'on va lire n'ont pas tous ete connus a Montreuil-sur-mer, mais le peu qui en a perce a laisse dans cette ville un tel souvenir, que ce serait une grave lacune dans ce livre si nous ne les racontions dans leurs moindres details. Dans ces details, le lecteur rencontrera deux ou trois circonstances invraisemblables que nous maintenons par respect pour la verite. Dans l'apres-midi qui...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK FIRST. A JUST MAN*** CHAPTER I. M. MYRIEL*** In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Digne since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK F SECOND. THE FALL*** CHAPTER I. THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING*** Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D---- The few inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. He...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK THIRD. IN THE YEAR 1817*** CHAPTER I. IN THE YEAR 1817*** 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguiere de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT*** CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF A PORGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS*** And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was she? What was she doing? After leaving her little Cosette with the Thenardiers, she had continued her journey, and had reached M. sur M. This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed its...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK SEVENTH. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR*** CHAPTER I. SISTER SIMPLICE*** The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth. On the afternoon following...

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION*** CHAPTER I. NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430*** Jean Valjean had been recaptured. The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising events which had taken place at M. sur M. These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence....

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, language: English, abstract: BOOK FOURTH. THE GORBEAU HOVEL*** CHAPTER I. MASTER GORBEAU*** Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpetriere, and who had mounted to the Barriere d'Italie by way of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in them;...