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#lesmiserables

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/

Victor Hugo - Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
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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
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Der Entgegner (Aka Ratatöskr)

Haleluja weitermachen würden und John Cartwright sie mit dem Heuwagen von der Bühne fährt.
Grauenvoll!

Als ich den Army-Chor neulich vor #Trump singen sah, hat mich das mit #lesmiserables versöhnt. Es ist für Amerikaner geschrieben. Es soll Auseinandersetzung ihrer eigenen mit der europäischen Geschichte bieten. Zeigen wie sich die Entwicklung zur modernen Zivilgesellschaft überall ähnlich abgespielt hat. Mehr nicht. Man könnte "Krieg und Frieden" ganz ähnlich bringen. Verständlich, akzeptabel.

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Der Entgegner (Aka Ratatöskr)

Du kann dir sowas nicht ausdenken. Der USArmy Chor gibt "do you hear the people sing" was die meisten als Epilog von "les Miserables" kennen, während #Trump und die ganze aufgeblasene fettaraschige Schickeria sitzen und zuhören müssen. Ja. Es wird eine Revolution kommen. Und ein neuer Humanismus. Zieht euch warm an. Alles was Ihr habt ist euer Geld.

#vivelarevolucion #LesMiserables #doyouhearthepeoplesing #sehenswert
youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI?si=rg_Hdb

YouTubeLes Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army ChorusBy The DailyFAFO
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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

YouTubeLes Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army ChorusBy The DailyFAFO
#LesMiserables#USArmyChorus#DoYouHearThePeopleSing
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Court Cantrell prefers not to

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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YouTubeLes Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army ChorusBy The DailyFAFO
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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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