Late in the novel, Enjolras "come[s] to accept... the transformation of the great French Republic into the immense human republic", and speaks of a "revolution of the True" that will "light up the whole human race." In the same speech, he seems to draw a religious parallel, declaring the barricades of the failed 1832 uprising to be a place where "day embraces night, and says: I will die with thee and thou shalt be born again with me."