Claim: At the age of ten, Catherine Heigel played Cosette in a radio adaptation of Les Misérables, a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1862, and considered as one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
Evidence: At ten, she played Cosette in a radio adaptation of Les Misérables, where her father played Jean Valjean. Les Misérables (/leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːbəl, -blə/, French: [le mizeʁabl(ə)) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.