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Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Misérables follows Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, he is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector, Javert.

Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and is part of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. He was also a novelist and a dramatist, and furthered the cause of Romanticism, this exalted artistic movement which toyed with Sublime and soared on the winds of emotion.

Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.

Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam, and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of postrevolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’ hard labour.

In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective.

Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Miserables follows Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, he is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert.

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert.

Le lyrisme se définissant comme l'expression de sentiments personnels, la poésie romantique est essentiellement lyrique : effusion du moi avec un goût marqué pour la mélancolie, lemal de vivre, les souffrances affectives, la méditation sur la ort, sur Dieu, sur l'amour et la fuite du temps, sur la nature et la gloire, mais aussi sur la fonction du poète (Hugo) ou le fantastique (Nerval). Les poètes romantiques assoupliront l'expression versifiée, à la recherche d'une plus grande musicalité et quelques audaces dans les mots et les images.

Une histoire vécue et un des écrits les plus poignants de Victor Hugo, servi par la voix d'Alain Carré. Claude Gueux, emprisonné à Clairvaux, se bat pour vivre dignement, ce qui l'entraînera à être condamné à mort. 

Alla sua pubblicazione nel 1831, "Notre Dame de Paris", la prima opera di Victor Hugo, ebbe un successo immenso. Tutto il romanzo è molto più del semplice racconto di un intreccio di amori impossibili, come quello di Quasimodo - meglio conosciuto come il Gobbo di Notre Dame - per l'incantevole zingara Esmeralda, o quello tetro, lascivo e peccaminoso dell'arcidiacono Claude Frollo.

Ninety-Three is the story of the Marquis de Lantenac, an exiled French nobleman snuck back into France to raise a Royalist army which will make the English invasion possible, Gauvain, Lantenac's great-nephew leading the Republican army to thwart him, and Cimourdain, a former priest and Gauvain's teacher and mentor, tasked to keep Gauvain on the right path. And in the end, who will face the guillotine? 

"Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame 1" (auch: Notre-Dame von Paris, Originaltitel: Notre-Dame de Paris) ist einer in zwei Bänden 1831 erschienener historischer Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Im Mittelpunkt steht die aufwändig geschilderte Kathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. In ihr spielen die wichtigsten Teile der Romanhandlung, vor allem das Geschehen um die Gestalt des Quasimodo, des Glöckners von Notre-Dame.

"Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame 2" (auch: Notre-Dame von Paris, Originaltitel: Notre-Dame de Paris) ist einer in zwei Bänden 1831 erschienener historischer Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Im Mittelpunkt steht die aufwändig geschilderte Kathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. In ihr spielen die wichtigsten Teile der Romanhandlung, vor allem das Geschehen um die Gestalt des Quasimodo, des Glöckners von Notre-Dame.

Victor Hugo est un poète, dramaturge et prosateur romantique français. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de langue française. Il est aussi une personnalité politique et un intellectuel engagé qui a joué un rôle majeur dans l'histoire du XIXe siècle. Victor Hugo occupe une place marquante dans l'histoire des lettres françaises au XIXe siècle, dans des genres et des domaines d'une remarquable variété. Ses romans rencontrent un grand succès populaire.

Ce court roman de Victor HUGO est inspiré par un fait divers ayant eu lieu le 7 novembre 1831 : Claude Gueux, voleur de nourriture par nécessité est emprisonné à la centrale de Clairvaux, ou il finit par tuer celui qui le brime M. Delacelle, le directeur des ateliers, ceci devant d'autres détenus manifestant leur soutien. Il est condamné à mort et exécuté en juin 1832. En 1834, Victor HUGO publie sa version du fait divers dans la "Revue de Paris" suivie d'un vibrant plaidoyer contre la peine de mort et d'une partie argumentative sur les lacunes de la société qui conduisent à de telles condamnations à mort.

The gallows, the rack, and angry mobs are part of the menace in this horrific novel set in 15th century Paris. Quasimodo, the kind-hearted, hunchbacked bell ringer and the lovely La Esmaralda struggle to survive the brutality that surrounds them.

La tragedia de un muchacho deformado. Victor Hugo logro en El Hombre Que Rie una de las novelas mas personales, al tiempo que una de las historias mas dramaticas de toda la literatura. Su protagonista es un muchacho secuestrado por roba-ninos, que han deformado su cara en tal forma que esta ostenta una permanente sonrisa, independientemente de como se sienta.

Considered to be French novelist Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, which was published in 1862, is a sprawling historical and philosophical epic that covers from 1815 through the Paris Uprising in 1832. Notable for its many subplots and digressions from the main storyline, the novel's stated aim is a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, which can be seen most clearly in the story of the central character Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who struggles to shake the sins of his past and become a good man. 

Spektakl' teatra im. Vahtangova po romanu Viktora Gjugo (1802-1882) Otverzhennye. Eeto proizvedenie o zhizni ljudej, otvergnutyh obshhestvom. O chelovecheskoj zhestokosti i nespravedlivosti zakona, o sile i stradanijah, o miloserdii i torzhestve dobra nad zlom, o bor'be za svoi prava i za svoe schast'e.