Les Misérables (2014 Animated Film)

Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.
==Characters==
*Jean Valjean (also known as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre) – The protagonist of the novel. Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's seven starving children and sent to prison for five years, he is paroled from prison nineteen years later (after four unsuccessful escape attempts added twelve years and fighting back during the second escape attempt added two extra years). Rejected by society for being a former convict, he encounters Bishop Myriel, who turns his life around by showing him mercy and encouraging him to become a new man. While sitting and pondering what Bishop Myriel had said, he puts his shoe on a forty-sou piece dropped by a young wanderer. Valjean threatens the boy with his stick when the boy attempts to rouse Valjean from his reverie and recover his money. He tells a passing priest his name, and the name of the boy, and this allows the police to charge him with armed robbery – a sentence that, if he were caught again, would return him to prison for life. He assumes a new identity (Monsieur Madeleine) in order to pursue an honest life. He introduces new manufacturing techniques and eventually builds two factories and becomes one of the richest men in the area. By popular acclaim he is made mayor. He confronts Javert over Fantine's punishment, turns himself in to the police to save another man from prison for life, and rescues Cosette from the Thénardiers. Discovered by Javert in Paris because of his generosity to the poor, he evades capture for the next several years in a convent. He saves Marius from imprisonment and probable death at the barricade, reveals his true identity to Marius and Cosette after their wedding, and is reunited with them just before his death, having kept his promise to the bishop and to Fantine, the image of whom is the last thing he sees before dying. His voice actor is Jim Piddock
*Javert – A fanatic police inspector in pursuit to recapture Valjean. Born in the prisons to a convict father and a gypsy mother, he renounces both of them and starts working as a guard in the prison, including one stint as the overseer for the chain gang of which Valjean is part (and here witnesses firsthand Valjean's enormous strength and just what he looks like). Eventually he joins the police force in the small town identified only as M____-sur-M__. He arrests Fantine and butts heads with Valjean/Madeleine, who orders him to release Fantine. Valjean dismisses Javert in front of his squad and Javert, seeking revenge, reports to the Police Inspector that he has discovered Jean Valjean. He is told that he must be incorrect, as a man mistakenly believed to be Jean Valjean was just arrested. He requests of M. Madeline that he be dismissed in disgrace, for he cannot be less harsh on himself than on others. When the real Jean Valjean turns himself in, Javert is promoted to the Paris police force where he arrests Valjean and sends him back to prison. After Valjean escapes again, Javert attempts one more arrest in vain. He then almost recaptures Valjean at Gorbeau house when he arrests the Thénardiers and Patron-Minette. Later, while working undercover behind the barricade, his identity is discovered. Valjean pretends to execute Javert, but releases him. When Javert next encounters Valjean emerging from the sewers, he allows him to make a brief visit home and then walks off instead of arresting him. Javert cannot reconcile his devotion to the law with his recognition that the lawful course is immoral. He takes his own life by jumping into the Seine. His voice actor is Alan Rickman.
*Fantine – A beautiful Parisian grisette abandoned with a small child by her lover Félix Tholomyès. Fantine leaves her daughter Cosette in the care of the Thénardiers, innkeepers in the village of Montfermeil. Mme. Thénardier spoils her own daughters and abuses Cosette. Fantine finds work at Monsieur Madeleine's factory. Illiterate, she has others write letters to the Thénardiers on her behalf. A female supervisor discovers that she is an unwed mother and dismisses her. To meet the Thénardiers' repeated demands for money, she sells her hair and two front teeth, and turns to prostitution. She becomes ill. Valjean learns of her plight when Javert arrests her for attacking a man who called her insulting names and threw snow down her back, and sends her to a hospital. As Javert confronts Valjean in her hospital room, because her illness has made her so weak, she dies of shock after Javert reveals that Valjean is a convict and hasn't brought her daughter Cosette to her (after the doctor encouraged that incorrect belief that Jean Valjean's recent absence was because he was bringing her daughter to her). Her voice actress is Kirsten Fairlie.
*Cosette (formally Euphrasie, also known as "the Lark", Mademoiselle Lanoire, Ursula) – The illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Tholomyès. From approximately the age of three to the age of eight, she is beaten and forced to work as a drudge for the Thénardiers. After her mother Fantine dies, Valjean ransoms Cosette from the Thénardiers and cares for her as if she were his daughter. Nuns in a Paris convent educate her. She grows up to become very beautiful. She falls in love with Marius Pontmercy and marries him near the novel's conclusion. Her voice actress is Maggie Blue O'Hara.
*Marius Pontmercy – A young law student loosely associated with the Friends of the ABC. He shares the political principles of his father and has a tempestuous relationship with his royalist grandfather, Monsieur Gillenormand. He falls in love with Cosette and fights on the barricades when he believes Valjean has taken her to London. After he and Cosette marry, he recognizes Thénardier as a swindler and pays him to leave France. His voice actor is Yuri Lowenthal.
*Éponine (the Jondrette girl) – The Thénardiers' elder daughter. As a child, she is pampered and spoiled by her parents, but ends up a street urchin when she reaches adolescence. She participates in her father's crimes and begging schemes to obtain money. She is blindly in love with Marius. At Marius' request, she finds Valjean and Cosette's house for him and sadly leads him there. She also prevents her father, Patron-Minette and Brujon from robbing the house during one of Marius' visits there to see Cosette. After disguising herself as a boy, she manipulates Marius into going to the barricades, hoping that they will die together. Wanting to die before Marius, she reaches out her hand to stop a soldier from shooting at him; she is mortally wounded as the bullet goes through her hand and her back. As she is dying, she confesses all this to Marius, and gives him a letter from Cosette. Her final request to Marius is that once she has passed, he will kiss her on the forehead. He fulfills her request not because of romantic feelings on his part, but out of pity for her hard life. Her voice actress is Ariel Winter
*Monsieur Thénardier and Madame Thénardier (also known as the Jondrettes, M. Fabantou, M. Thénard. Some translations identify her as the Thenardiess) – Husband and wife, parents of five children: two daughters, Éponine and Azelma, and three sons, Gavroche and two unnamed younger sons. As innkeepers, they abuse Cosette as a child and extract payment from Fantine for her support, until Valjean takes Cosette away. They become bankrupt and relocate under the name Jondrette to a house in Paris called the Gorbeau house, living in the room next to Marius. The husband associate with a criminal group called "the Patron-Minette", and conspires to rob Valjean until he is thwarted by Marius. Javert arrests the couple. The wife dies in prison. Her husband attempts to blackmail Marius with his knowledge of Valjean's past, but Marius pays him to leave the country. He becomes a slave trader in the United States. Monsieur's voice actor is Maurice LaMarche, while Madame's voice actress is Tress McNellie
*Enjolras – The leader of Les Amis de l'ABC (Friends of the ABC) in the Paris uprising. Passionately committed to republican principles and the idea of progress. He and Grantaire are executed by the National Guards after the barricade falls. His voice actor is Crispin Freeman.
*Gavroche – The unloved middle child and eldest son of the Thénardiers. He lives on his own as a street urchin and sleeps inside an elephant statue outside the Bastille. He briefly takes care of his two younger brothers, unaware they are related to him. He takes part in the barricades and is killed while collecting bullets from dead National Guardsmen. His voice actor is Dee Bradley Baker
*Bishop Myriel – The Bishop of Digne (full name Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel, also called Monseigneur Bienvenu) – A kindly old priest promoted to bishop after a chance encounter with Napoleon. After Valjean steals some silver from him, he saves Valjean from being arrested and inspires Valjean to change his ways. His voice actor is Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
*Bahorel – A dandy and an idler from a peasant background, who is known well around the student cafes of Paris. His voice actor is Rene Auberjonis
*Combeferre – A philosophical student who is second to Enjolras in the group. His voice actor is Rob Paulson
*Courfeyrac – Marius' closest friend in the book, who provides him with financial assistance and with lodging after the Gorbeau house affair. Courfeyrac is charismatic and one of the more enthusiastic members of the Friends of the ABC. His voice actor is Dee Bradley Baker
*Feuilly – A fan maker who studies the subject of revolution deeply. His voice actor is Greg Ellis
*Grantaire – Grantaire is an alcoholic student who has little interest of revolution or democracy (and at times scoffs at these ideas), but is part of the Friends of the ABC purely out of his love for Enjolras. Grantaire is cynical and upholds a philosophy of Nihilism, making him the opposite of Enjolras. This is emphasized in the novel, where their relationship is compared to that of Orestes and his companion Pylades. Enjolras, in return, thinks little of Grantaire. During the uprising Grantaire finds himself holed-up in a wine shop and drinks himself into a stupor. Upon awaking he finds Enjolras hiding in the shop. When the army eventually arrives, Grantaire requests to be executed alongside Enjolras. Despite his stoicism and pessimism, Grantaire exchanges a smile with Enjolras before they are killed. His voice actor is J.B. Blanc
*Jean Prouvaire – A very well-spoken romantic. His voice actor is Jeff Bennett
*Joly – Student of medicine who has unusual theories about health. He is also a hypochondriac and the happiest of Les Amis. His voice actor is David Letour
*Lesgle [also Lègle, Laigle, L'Aigle (The Eagle) or Bossuet] – The oldest member of the group, Lesgle was granted a dukedom by Louis XVIII after helping him into a carriage. He is considered to be notoriously unlucky, a theory which he assumed when he started balding aged twenty-five. Lesgle is the one who introduced Marius to the Friends of the ABC, and saved him from expulsion from college by calling out "here" when Marius' name is read from the register in his absence. His voice actor is Maurice LaMarche
*Azelma – The younger daughter of the Thénardiers. Like her sister Éponine, she is spoiled as a child, impoverished when older. She abets her father's failed robbery of Valjean. On Marius and Cosette's wedding day, she tails Valjean on her father's orders. She travels to America with her father at the end of the novel. Her voice actress is Kath Soucie
*Bamatabois – An idler who harasses Fantine. Later a juror at Champmathieu's trial. His voice actor is Jeff Bennett
*(Mlle) Baptistine Myriel – Bishop Myriel's sister. She loves and venerates her brother. Her voice actress is Grey DeLisle
*Bougon, Madame (called Ma'am Burgon) – Housekeeper of Gorbeau House. Her voice actress is ???
*Brevet – An ex-convict from Toulon who knew Valjean there; released one year after Valjean. In 1823, he is serving time in the prison in Arras for an unknown crime. He is the first to claim that Champmathieu is really Valjean. He used to wear knitted, checkered suspenders. His voice actor is ???
*Brujon – A robber and criminal. He participates in crimes with M. Thénardier and the Patron-Minette gang (such as the Gorbeau Robbery and the attempted robbery at the Rue Plumet). The author describes Brujon as being "a sprightly young fellow, very cunning and very adroit, with a flurried and plaintive appearance." His voice actor is ???
*Champmathieu – A vagabond who is misidentified as Valjean after being caught stealing apples. His voice actor is ???
*Chenildieu – A lifer from Toulon. He and Valjean were chain mates for five years. He once tried to unsuccessfully remove his lifer's brand TFP ("travaux forcés à perpetuité", "forced labour for life") by putting his shoulder on a chafing dish full of embers. He is described as a small, wiry but energetic man. His voice actor is ???
*Cochepaille – Another lifer from Toulon. He used to be a shepherd from the Pyrenees who became a smuggler. He is described as stupid and has a tattoo on his arm, 1 Mars 1815. His voice actor is ???
*Colonel Georges Pontmercy – Marius's father and an officer in Napoleon's army. Wounded at Waterloo, Pontmercy erroneously believes M. Thénardier saved his life. He tells Marius of this great debt. He loves Marius and although M. Gillenormand does not allow him to visit, he continually hid behind a pillar in the church on Sunday so that he could at least look at Marius from a distance). Napoleon made him a baron, but the next regime refused to recognize his barony or his status as a colonel, instead referring to him only as a commandant. The book usually calls him "The colonel." His voice actor is ???
*Fauchelevent – A failed businessman whom Valjean (as M. Madeleine) saves from being crushed under a carriage. Valjean gets him a position as gardener at a Paris convent, where Fauchelevent later provides sanctuary for Valjean and Cosette and allows Valjean to pose as his brother. His voice actor is ???
*Mabeuf – An elderly churchwarden, friend of Colonel Pontmercy, who after the Colonel's death befriends his son Marius and helps Marius realize his father loved him. Mabeuf loves plants and books, but sells his books and prints in order to live. When Mabeuf finds a purse in his yard, he takes it to the police. After selling his last book, he joins the students in the insurrection. He is shot dead raising the flag atop the barricade. His voice actor is ???
*Mademoiselle Gillenormand – Daughter of M. Gillenormand, with whom she lives. Her late half-sister (M. Gillenormand's daughter from another marriage), was Marius' mother. Her voice actor is ???
*Magloire, Madame – Domestic servant to Bishop Myriel and his sister. Her voice actor is ???
*Magnon – Former servant of M. Gillenormand and friend of the Thénardiers. She had been receiving child support payments from M. Gillenormand for her two illegitimate sons, who she claimed were fathered by him. When her sons died in an epidemic, she had them replaced with the Thénardiers' two youngest sons so that she could protect her income. The Thénardiers get a portion of the payments. She is incorrectly arrested for involvement in the Gorbeau robbery. Her voice actress is ???
*Monsieur Gillenormand – Marius' grandfather. A monarchist, he disagrees sharply with Marius on political issues, and they have several arguments. He attempts to keep Marius from being influenced by his father, Colonel Georges Pontmercy. While in perpetual conflict over ideas, he does illustrate his love for his grandson. His voice actor is ???
*Mother Innocente (a.k.a. Marguerite de Blemeur) – The prioress of the Petit-Picpus convent. Her voice actress is ???
*Patron-Minette – A quartet of bandits who assist in the Thénardiers' ambush of Valjean at Gorbeau House and the attempted robbery at the Rue Plumet. The gang consists of Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and Gueulemer. Claquesous, who escaped from the carriage transporting him to prison after the Gorbeau Robbery, joins the revolution under the guise of "Le Cabuc" and is executed by Enjolras for firing on civilians. His voice actor is ???
*Petit Gervais – A travelling Savoyard boy who drops a coin. Valjean, still a man of criminal mind, places his foot on the coin and refuses to return it. His voice actor is ???
*Sister Simplice – A famously truthful nun who cares for Fantine on her sickbed and lies to Javert to protect Valjean. Her voice actress is ???
*Félix Tholomyès – Fantine's lover and Cosette's biological father. A rich, self-centered student, he abandons Fantine when their daughter is 2. His voice actor is ???
*Toussaint – Valjean and Cosette's servant in Paris. She has a slight stutter. Her voice actress is ???
*Two little boys – The two unnamed youngest sons of the Thénardiers, whom they send to Magnon to replace her two dead sons. Living on the streets, they encounter Gavroche, who is unaware they are his siblings but treats them like they are his brothers. After Gavroche's death, they retrieve bread tossed by a bourgeois man to geese in a fountain at the Luxembourg Gardens. Their voice actors are ??? and ???
==Plot==
The story begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released from 19 years' imprisonment in the galleys—five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous escape attempts—is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow passport marks him as a former convict. He sleeps on the street, angry and bitter.
Digne's benevolent Bishop Myriel gives him shelter. At night, Valjean runs off with Myriel's silverware. When the police capture Valjean, Myriel pretends that he has given the silverware to Valjean and presses him to take two silver candlesticks as well, as if he had forgotten to take them. The police accept his explanation and leave. Myriel tells Valjean that his life has been spared for God, that he should use the silver candlesticks to make an honest man of himself.
Valjean broods over Myriel's words. When opportunity presents itself, purely out of habit, he steals a 40-sous coin from 12-year-old Petit Gervais and chases the boy away. He quickly repents and searches the city in panic for Gervais. At the same time, his theft is reported to the authorities. Valjean hides as they search for him, because if apprehended he will be returned to the galleys for life as a repeat offender.
Six years pass and Valjean, using the alias Monsieur Madeleine, has become a wealthy factory owner and is appointed mayor of a town identified only as M____-sur-M__. Walking down the street, he sees a man named Fauchelevent pinned under the wheels of a cart. When no one volunteers to lift the cart, even for pay, he decides to rescue Fauchelevent himself. He crawls underneath the cart, manages to lift it, and frees him. The town's police inspector, Inspector Javert, who was an adjutant guard at the Bagne of Toulon during Valjean's incarceration, becomes suspicious of the mayor after witnessing this remarkable feat of strength. He has known only one other man, a convict named Jean Valjean, who could accomplish it.
Years earlier in Paris, a grisette named Fantine was very much in love with Félix Tholomyès. His friends, Listolier, Fameuil, and Blachevelle were also paired with Fantine's friends Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite. The men abandon the women, treating their relationships as youthful amusements. Fantine must draw on her own resources to care for her and Tholomyès' daughter, Cosette. When Fantine arrives at Montfermeil, she leaves Cosette in the care of the Thénardiers, a corrupt innkeeper and his selfish, cruel wife.
Fantine is unaware that they are abusing her daughter and using her as forced labor for their inn, and continues to try to meet their growing, extortionate and fictitious demands. She is later fired from her job at Jean Valjean's factory, because of the discovery of her daughter, who was born out of wedlock. Meanwhile, the Thénardiers' monetary demands continue to grow. In desperation, Fantine sells her hair and two front teeth, and she resorts to prostitution to pay the Thénardiers. Fantine is slowly dying from an unspecified disease.
A dandy named Bamatabois harasses Fantine in the street, and she reacts by striking him. Javert arrests Fantine. She begs to be released so that she can provide for her daughter, but Javert sentences her to six months in prison. Valjean (Mayor Madeleine) intervenes and orders Javert to release her. Javert resists but Valjean prevails. Valjean, feeling responsible because his factory turned her away, promises Fantine that he will bring Cosette to her. He takes her to a hospital.
Javert comes to see Valjean again. Javert admits that after being forced to free Fantine, he reported him as Valjean to the French authorities. He tells Valjean he realizes he was wrong, because the authorities have identified someone else as the real Jean Valjean, have him in custody, and plan to try him the next day. Valjean is torn, but decides to reveal himself to save the innocent man, whose real name is Champmathieu. He travels to attend the trial and there reveals his true identity. Valjean returns to M____-sur-M__ to see Fantine, followed by Javert, who confronts him in her hospital room.
After Javert grabs Valjean, Valjean asks for three days to bring Cosette to Fantine, but Javert refuses. Fantine discovers that Cosette is not at the hospital and fretfully asks where she is. Javert orders her to be quiet, and then reveals to her Valjean's real identity. Weakened by the severity of her illness, she falls back in shock and dies. Valjean goes to Fantine, speaks to her in an inaudible whisper, kisses her hand, and then leaves with Javert. Fantine's body is thrown into a public grave.
Valjean escapes, is recaptured, and is sentenced to death. The king commutes his sentence to penal servitude for life. While imprisoned at the military port of Toulon, Valjean, at great personal risk, rescues a sailor caught in the ship's rigging. Spectators call for his release. Valjean fakes his own death by allowing himself to fall into the ocean. Authorities report him dead and his body lost.
Valjean arrives at Montfermeil on Christmas Eve. He finds Cosette fetching water in the woods alone and walks with her to the inn. He orders a meal and observes how the Thénardiers abuse her, while pampering their own daughters Éponine and Azelma, who mistreat Cosette for playing with their doll. Valjean leaves and returns to make Cosette a present of an expensive new doll which, after some hesitation, she happily accepts. Éponine and Azelma are envious. Madame Thénardier is furious with Valjean, while her husband makes light of Valjean's behaviour, caring only that he pay for his food and lodging.
The next morning, Valjean informs the Thénardiers that he wants to take Cosette with him. Madame Thénardier immediately accepts, while Thénardier pretends to love Cosette and be concerned for her welfare, reluctant to give her up. Valjean pays 1,500 francs to them, and he and Cosette leave the inn. Thénardier, hoping to swindle more out of Valjean, runs after them, holding the 1,500 francs, and tells Valjean he wants Cosette back. He informs Valjean that he cannot release Cosette without a note from the child's mother. Valjean hands Thénardier Fantine's letter authorizing the bearer to take Cosette. Thénardier then demands that Valjean pay a thousand crowns, but Valjean and Cosette leave. Thénardier regrets that he did not bring his gun and turns back toward home.
Valjean and Cosette flee to Paris. Valjean rents new lodgings at Gorbeau House, where he and Cosette live happily. However, Javert discovers Valjean's lodgings there a few months later. Valjean takes Cosette and they try to escape from Javert. They soon find shelter in the Petit-Picpus convent with the help of Fauchelevent, the man whom Valjean once rescued from being crushed under a cart and who has become the convent's gardener. Valjean also becomes a gardener and Cosette becomes a student at the convent school.
Eight years later, the Friends of the ABC, led by Enjolras, are preparing an act of anti-Orléanist civil unrest on the eve of the Paris uprising on 5–6 June 1832, following the death of General Lamarque, the only French leader who had sympathy towards the working class. They are also joined by the poor of the Cour des miracles, including the Thénardiers' eldest son Gavroche, who is a street urchin.
One of the students, Marius Pontmercy, has become alienated from his family (especially his grandfather M. Gillenormand) because of his liberal views. After the death of his father Colonel Georges Pontmercy, Marius discovers a note from him instructing his son to provide help to a sergeant named Thénardier who saved Pontmercy's life at Waterloo – in reality Thénardier was looting corpses and only saved Pontmercy's life by accident; he had called himself a sergeant under Napoleon to avoid exposing himself as a robber.
At the Luxembourg Gardens, Marius falls in love with the now grown and beautiful Cosette. The Thénardiers have also moved to Paris and now live in poverty after losing their inn. They live under the surname "Jondrette" at Gorbeau House (coincidentally, the same building Valjean and Cosette briefly lived in after leaving the Thénardiers' inn). Marius lives there as well, next door to the Thénardiers.
Éponine, now ragged and emaciated, visits Marius at his apartment to beg for money. To impress him, she tries to prove her literacy by reading aloud from a book and by writing "The Cops Are Here" on a sheet of paper. Marius pities her and gives her some money. After Éponine leaves, Marius observes the "Jondrettes" in their apartment through a crack in the wall. Éponine comes in and announces that a philanthropist and his daughter are arriving to visit them. In order to look poorer, Thénardier puts out the fire and breaks a chair. He also orders Azelma to punch out a window pane, which she does, resulting in cutting her hand (as Thénardier had hoped).
The philanthropist and his daughter enter—actually Valjean and Cosette. Marius immediately recognizes Cosette. After seeing them, Valjean promises them he will return with rent money for them. After he and Cosette leave, Marius asks Éponine to retrieve her address for him. Éponine, who is in love with Marius herself, reluctantly agrees to do so. The Thénardiers have also recognized Valjean and Cosette, and vow their revenge. Thénardier enlists the aid of the Patron-Minette, a well-known and feared gang of murderers and robbers.
Marius overhears Thénardier's plan and goes to Javert to report the crime. Javert gives Marius two pistols and instructs him to fire one into the air if things get dangerous. Marius returns home and waits for Javert and the police to arrive. Thénardier sends Éponine and Azelma outside to look out for the police. When Valjean returns with rent money, Thénardier, with Patron-Minette, ambushes him and he reveals his real identity to Valjean. Marius recognizes Thénardier as the man who "saved" his father's life at Waterloo and is caught in a dilemma.
He tries to find a way to save Valjean while not betraying Thénardier. Valjean denies knowing Thénardier and tells him that they have never met. Valjean tries to escape through a window but is subdued and tied up. Thénardier orders Valjean to pay him 200,000 francs. He also orders Valjean to write a letter to Cosette to return to the apartment, and they would keep her with them until he delivers the money. After Valjean writes the letter and informs Thénardier of his address, Thénardier sends out Mme. Thénardier to get Cosette. Mme. Thénardier comes back alone, and announces the address is a fake.
It is during this time that Valjean manages to free himself. Thénardier decides to kill Valjean. While he and Patron-Minette are about to do so, Marius remembers the scrap of paper that Éponine wrote on earlier. He throws it into the Thénardiers' apartment through the wall crack. Thénardier reads it and thinks Éponine threw it inside. He, Mme. Thénardier and Patron-Minette try to escape, only to be stopped by Javert.
He arrests all the Thénardiers and Patron-Minette (except Claquesous, who escapes during his transportation to prison; Montparnasse, who stops to run off with Éponine instead of joining in on the robbery; and Gavroche, who was not present and rarely participates in his family's crimes, a notable exception being his part in breaking his father out of prison). Valjean manages to escape the scene before Javert sees him.
After Éponine's release from prison, she finds Marius at "The Field of the Lark" and sadly tells him that she found Cosette's address. She leads him to Valjean's and Cosette's house on Rue Plumet, and Marius watches the house for a few days. He and Cosette then finally meet and declare their love for one another. Thénardier, Patron-Minette and Brujon manage to escape from prison with the aid of Gavroche. One night, during one of Marius's visits with Cosette, the six men attempt to raid Valjean's and Cosette's house. However, Éponine, who has been sitting by the gates of the house, threatens to scream and awaken the whole neighbourhood if the thieves do not leave. Hearing this, they reluctantly retire. Meanwhile, Cosette informs Marius that she and Valjean will be leaving for England in a week's time, which greatly troubles the pair.
The next day, Valjean is sitting in the Champ de Mars. He is feeling troubled about seeing Thénardier in the neighbourhood several times. Unexpectedly, a note lands in his lap, which says "Move Out." He sees a figure running away in the dim light. He goes back to his house, tells Cosette they will be staying at their other house on Rue de l'Homme Arme, and reconfirms to her that they will be moving to England. Marius tries to get permission from M. Gillenormand to marry Cosette. His grandfather seems stern and angry, but has been longing for Marius's return. When tempers flare, he refuses his assent to the marriage, telling Marius to make Cosette his mistress instead. Insulted, Marius leaves.
The following day, the students revolt and erect barricades in the narrow streets of Paris. Gavroche spots Javert and informs Enjolras that Javert is a spy. When Enjolras confronts him about this, he admits his identity and his orders to spy on the students. Enjolras and the other students tie him up to a pole in the Corinth restaurant. Later that evening, Marius goes back to Valjean's and Cosette's house on Rue Plumet, but finds the house no longer occupied. He then hears a voice telling him that his friends are waiting for him at the barricade. Distraught to find Cosette gone, he heeds the voice and goes.
When Marius arrives at the barricade, the "revolution" has already started. When he stoops down to pick up a powder keg, a soldier comes up to shoot Marius. However a man covers the muzzle of the soldier's gun with his hand. The soldier fires, fatally shooting the man, while missing Marius. Meanwhile, the soldiers are closing in. Marius climbs to the top of the barricade, holding a torch in one hand, a powder keg in the other, and threatens to the soldiers that he will blow up the barricade. After confirming this, the soldiers retreat from the barricade.
Marius decides to go to the smaller barricade, which he finds empty. As he turns back, the man who took the fatal shot for Marius earlier calls Marius by his name. Marius discovers this man is Éponine, dressed in men's clothes. As she lies dying on his knees, she confesses that she was the one who told him to go to the barricade, hoping they would die together. She also confesses to saving his life because she wanted to die before he did.
The author also states to the reader that Éponine anonymously threw the note to Valjean. Éponine then tells Marius that she has a letter for him. She also confesses to have obtained the letter the day before, originally not planning to give it to him, but decides to do so in fear he would be angry at her about it in the afterlife. After Marius takes the letter, Éponine then asks him to kiss her on the forehead when she is dead, which he promises to do. With her last breath, she confesses that she was "a little bit in love" with him, and dies.
Marius fulfills her request and goes into a tavern to read the letter. It is written by Cosette. He learns Cosette's whereabouts and he writes a farewell letter to her. He sends Gavroche to deliver it to her, but Gavroche leaves it with Valjean. Valjean, learning that Cosette's lover is fighting, is at first relieved, but an hour later, he puts on a National Guard uniform, arms himself with a gun and ammunition, and leaves his home.
Valjean arrives at the barricade and immediately saves a man's life. He is still not certain if he wants to protect Marius or kill him. Marius recognizes Valjean at first sight. Enjolras announces that they are almost out of cartridges. When Gavroche goes outside the barricade to collect more ammunition from the dead National Guardsmen, he is shot by the troops.
Valjean volunteers to execute Javert himself, and Enjolras grants permission. Valjean takes Javert out of sight, and then shoots into the air while letting him go. Marius mistakenly believes that Valjean has killed Javert. As the barricade falls, Valjean carries off the injured and unconscious Marius. All the other students are killed. Valjean escapes through the sewers, carrying Marius's body. He evades a police patrol, and reaches an exit gate but finds it locked. Thénardier emerges from the darkness. Valjean recognizes him, but his filthy appearance prevents Thénardier from recognizing him. Thinking Valjean a murderer lugging his victim's corpse, Thénardier offers to open the gate for money. As he searches Valjean and Marius's pockets, he surreptitiously tears off a piece of Marius's coat so he can later find out his identity. Thénardier takes the thirty francs he finds, opens the gate, and allows Valjean to leave, expecting Valjean's emergence from the sewer will distract the police who have been pursuing him.
Upon exiting, Valjean encounters Javert and requests time to return Marius to his family before surrendering to him. Javert agrees, assuming that Marius will be dead within minutes. After leaving Marius at his grandfather's house, Valjean asks to be allowed a brief visit to his own home, and Javert agrees. There, Javert tells Valjean he will wait for him in the street, but when Valjean scans the street from the landing window he finds Javert has gone. Javert walks down the street, realizing that he is caught between his strict belief in the law and the mercy Valjean has shown him. He feels he can no longer give Valjean up to the authorities but also cannot ignore his duty to the law. Unable to cope with this dilemma, Javert commits suicide by throwing himself into the Seine.
Marius slowly recovers from his injuries. As he and Cosette make wedding preparations, Valjean endows them with a fortune of nearly 600,000 francs. As their wedding party winds through Paris during Mardi Gras festivities, Valjean is spotted by Thénardier, who then orders Azelma to follow him. After the wedding, Valjean confesses to Marius that he is an ex-convict. Marius is horrified, assumes the worst about Valjean's moral character, and contrives to limit Valjean's time with Cosette. Valjean accedes to Marius' judgment and his separation from Cosette. Valjean loses the will to live and retires to his bed.
Thénardier approaches Marius in disguise, but Marius recognizes him. Thénardier attempts to blackmail Marius with what he knows of Valjean, but in doing so, he inadvertently corrects Marius's misconceptions about Valjean and reveals all of the good he has done. He tries to convince Marius that Valjean is actually a murderer, and presents the piece of coat he tore off as evidence. Stunned, Marius recognizes the fabric as part of his own coat and realizes that it was Valjean who rescued him from the barricade. Marius pulls out a fistful of notes and flings it at Thénardier's face. He then confronts Thénardier with his crimes and offers him an immense sum to depart and never return. Thénardier accepts the offer, and he and Azelma travel to America where he becomes a slave trader.
As they rush to Valjean's house, Marius tells Cosette that Valjean saved his life at the barricade. They arrive to find Valjean near death and reconcile with him. Valjean tells Cosette her mother's story and name. He dies content and is buried beneath a blank slab in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
==Songs==
*Look Down, sung by Gavroche, Beggars, Enjolras, Marius,:
**BeggarsLook down, look down, and see the beggars at your feetLook down and show some mercy if you canLook down and seeThe sweepings of the streetsLook down, look down,Upon your fellow man!GavrocheHow do you do? My name's GavrocheThese are my people, here's my patchNot much to look at, nothing poshNothing that you'd call up to scratchThis is my school, my high societyHere in the slums of Saint MicheleWe live on crumbs of humble pietyTough on the teeth, but what the hell!Think you're poor?Think you're free?Follow me, follow me!BeggarsLook down, and show some mercy if you canLook down, look down, upon your fellow man[An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her patch.]Old Beggar WomanWhat you think yer at?Hanging round me pitch?If you're new around here, girlYou've got a lot to learnYoung ProstituteListen you old batCrazy bloody witch'Least I give my customersSome pleasure in returnOld Beggar WomanI know what you give!Give 'em all the pox!Spread around your poisonTill they end up in a boxPimpLeave the poor old cow,Move it, MadeleineShe used to be no betterTill the clap got to her brainBeggarsWhen's it gonna end?When we gonna live?Something's gotta happen now orSomething's gonna give...It'll come, it'll come, it'll comeIt'll come, it'll come, it'll comeEnjolrasWhere the leaders of the land?Where are the swells who run this show?MariusOnly one man - and that's LamarqueSpeaks for these people here belowBeggarsSee our children fedHelp us in our shameSomething for a crust of breadIn Holy Jesus' nameUrchinIn the Lord's Holy name.BeggarsIn his name, in his name, in his name...MariusLamarque is ill and fading fast!Won't last the week out so they sayEnjolrasWith all the anger in the landHow long before the judgement day?Before we cut the fat ones down to size?Before the barricades arise?GavrocheWatch out for old ThenardierAll of his family is on the makeOnce ran a hash-house down the wayBit of a swine and no mistakeHe's got a gangThe bleeding layaboutEven his daughter does her shareThat's Eponine, she knows her way aboutOnly a kid, but hard to scareDo we care?Not a cuss!Long live us, long live us!BeggarsLook down, look down, and show some mercy if you canLook down, look down, upon your fellow man!
*The Bishop, sung by Valjean, Javert, Bishop and Others:
**~Javert~Now bring me prisoner 24601Your time is upAnd your parole's begunYou know what that means
~Valjean~Yes, it means I'm free
~Javert~NoIt means you getYour yellow ticket-of-leaveYou are a thief
~Valjean~I stole a loaf of bread!
~Javert~You robbed a house!
~Valjean~I broke a window pane!My sister's child was close to deathAnd we were starving!
~Javert~And you will starve againUnless you learn the meaning of the law.
~Valjean~I know the meaning of these 19 yearsA slave of the law
~Javert~Five years for what you didThe rest because you tried to runYes 24601
~Valjean~My name is Jean Valjean
~Javert~And I am JavertDo not forget my nameDo not forget me24601
~Choir~Look down, look downYou will always be a slaveLook down, look downYou're standing in your grave.
~Valjean~Freedom is mine. The earth is still.I feel the wind. I breathe again.And the sky clears, the world is waiting.Drink from the pool. How clean the tasteNever forget the years, the waste.Nor forgive them, for what they've done.They are the guilty, everyone.The day begins...And now lets seeWhat this new worldWill do for me!
[He finds work on a farm.]
~Employer~You'll have to goI'll pay you off for the dayCollect your bits and pieces thereAnd be on your way.
~Valjean~You've given me halfWhat the other men get!This handful of tinWouldn't buy my sweat!
~Laborer~You broke the lawIt's there for people to seeWhy should you get the sameAs honest men like me?
~Javert~Now I know how freedom feelsThe jail is always at your heelsIt is the lawThis piece of paper in my hand which bids me cast throughout the landIt is the lawLike a curI walk the streetsThe dirt beneath their feet
~Bishop~Come in sir for you are wearyAnd the night is cold out thereThough our lives are very humbleWhat we have we have to shareThere is wine here to revive youThere is bread to make you strongThere's a bed to rest till morningRest from pain and rest from wrong
~Valjean~He let me eat my fillI had the lion's shareThe silver in my hand cost twice what I had earnedHe knows those nineteen years that lifetime of despairAnd yet he trusted meThe old fool trusted meHe'd done his bit of goodI played the grateful serf and thanked him like I shouldBut when the house was stillI got up in the nightTook the silverTook my flight!!
[Taking the silver cup, he runs off, but is brought backby two constables.]
~Constable 1~Tell his reverence your story
~Constable 2~Let us see if he's impressed
~Constable 1~You were lodging there last night
~Constable 2~You were the honest Bishop's guest.
~Constable 1~And then, out of Christian goodness
~Constable 2~When he learned about your plight
~Constable 1~You maintain he made a present of this silver -
~Bishop~That is right.But my friend you left so earlySurely something slipped your mind
[The bishop gives Valjean two silver candlesticks.]
You forgot I gave these alsoWould you leave the best behind?So Messieurs you may release himFor this man has spoken trueI commend you for your dutyMay God's blessing go with you.But remember this, my brotherSee in this some higher planYou must use this precious silverTo become an honest manBy the witness of the martyrsBy the Passion and the BloodGod has raised you out of darknessI have saved your soul for God!
*Valjean's Solioquy, sung by Valjean:
**What have I done sweet Jesus? What have I done?Become a thief in the night? Become a dog on the run?Have I fallen so far and is the hour so late?That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?The cries in the dark that nobody hears?Here where I stand at the turning of the yearsIf there's another way to go, I missed it twenty long years agoMy life was a war that could never be wonThey gave me a number, murdered ValjeanWhen the chained me and left me for deadJust for stealing a mouthful of breadYet why did I allow that man, to touch my soul and teach me love?He treated me like any otherHe gave me his trust, he called me "brother"My life he claims for God above. Can such things be?For I had come to hate the world, this world that always hated meTake an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stoneThis is all I have lived for, this is all I have knownOne word from him and I'd be back, beneath the lash upon the rackInstead he offers me my freedomI feel my shame inside me like a knifeHe told me that I had a soul. How does he know?What spirit comes to move my life? Is there another way to go?I am reaching but I fall, and the night is closing inAs I stare into the void, to the whirlpool of my sinI'll escape now from the world, from the world of Jean ValjeanJean Valjean is nothing now! Another story must begin!!!
*At the End of the Day, sung by Valjean, Fantine, Workers:
**[1823, Montreuil-sur-Mer.][Outside the factory owned by the Mayor,][Monsieur Madeleine (Jean Valjean in disguise).][THE POOR]At the end of the day you're another day olderAnd that's all you can say for the life of the poorIt's a struggle, it's a warAnd there's nothing that anyone's givingOne more day standing about, what is it for?One day less to be living.At the end of the day you're another day colderAnd the shirt on your back doesn't keep out the chillAnd the righteous hurry pastThey don't hear the little ones cryingAnd the winter is coming on fast, ready to killOne day nearer to dying!At the end of the day there's another day dawningAnd the sun in the morning is waiting to riseLike the waves crash on the sandLike a storm that'll break any secondThere's a hunger in the landThere's a reckoning still to be reckoned andThere's gonna be hell to payAt the end of the day![The foreman and workers, including Fantine, emerge from the factory][FOREMAN]At the end of the day you get nothing for nothingSitting flat on your butt doesn't buy any bread[WORKER ONE]There are children back at home[WORKERS ONE AND TWO]And the children have got to be fed[WORKER TWO]And you're lucky to be in a job[WOMAN]And in a bed![WORKERS]And we're counting our blessings![WOMAN TWO]Have you seen how the foreman is fuming today?With his terrible breath and his wandering hands?[WOMAN THREE]It's because little Fantine won't give him his way[WOMAN ONE]Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he stands![WOMAN FOUR]And the boss, he never knowsThat the foreman is always in heat[WOMAN THREE]If Fantine doesn't look outWatch how she goesShe'll be out on the street![WORKERS]At the end of the day it's another day overWith enough in your pocket to last for a weekPay the landlord, pay the shopKeep on grafting as long as you're ableKeep on grafting till you dropOr it's back to the crumbs off the tableYou've got to pay your wayAt the end of the day![GIRL (Grabbing a letter from Fantine)]And what have we here, little innocent sister?Come on Fantine, let's have all the news![Reading the letter]Ooh..."Dear Fantine you must send us more money...Your child needs a doctor...There's no time to lose..."[FANTINE]Give that letter to meIt is none of your businessWith a husband at homeAnd a bit on the side!Is there anyone hereWho can swear before GodShe has nothing to fear?She has nothing to hide?[They fight over the letter. Valjean (M. Madeleine) rushes on to break up the squabble.][VALJEAN]Will someone tear these two apartWhat is this fighting all about?This is a factory, not a circus!Now, come on ladies, settle downI run a business of reputeI am the Mayor of this town[To the foreman]I look to you to sort this outAnd be as patient as you can-[He goes back into the factory][FOREMAN]Now someone say how this began![GIRL]At the end of the dayShe's the one who began it!There's a kid that she's hidingIn some little townThere's a man she has to payYou can guess how she picks up the extraYou can bet she's earning her keepSleeping aroundAnd the boss wouldn't like it![FANTINE]Yes it's true there's a childAnd the child is my daughterAnd her father abandoned usLeaving us flatNow she lives with an innkeeper manAnd his wifeAnd I pay for the childWhat's the matter with that?[WOMEN]At the end of the dayShe'll be nothing but troubleAnd there's trouble for allWhen there's trouble for one!While we're earning our daily breadShe's the one with her hands in the butterYou must send the slut awayOr we're all gonna end in the gutterAnd it's us who'll have to payAt the end of the day![FOREMAN]I might have known the woman could biteI might have known the cat had clawsI might have guessed your little secretAh yes, the virtuous FantineWho keeps herself so pure and cleanYou'd be the cause I had no doubtOf any trouble hereaboutYou play a virgin in the lightBut need no urgin' in the night.[GIRL]She's been laughing at youWhile she's having her men[WOMEN]She'll be nothing but trouble again and again[WOMAN]You must sack her today[WORKERS]Sack the girl today![FOREMAN]Right my girl. On your way!
*I Dreamed a Dream, sung by Fantine:
**[Fantine is left alone, unemployed and destitute][FANTINE]There was a time when men were kindWhen their voices were softAnd their words invitingThere was a time when love was blindAnd the world was a songAnd the song was excitingThere was a timeThen it all went wrongI dreamed a dream in time gone byWhen hope was highAnd life worth livingI dreamed that love would never dieI dreamed that God would be forgivingThen I was young and unafraidAnd dreams were made and used and wastedThere was no ransom to be paidNo song unsung, no wine untastedBut the tigers come at nightWith their voices soft as thunderAs they tear your hope apartAs they turn your dream to shameHe slept a summer by my sideHe filled my days with endless wonderHe took my childhood in his strideBut he was gone when autumn cameAnd still I dream he'll come to meThat we will live the years togetherBut there are dreams that cannot beAnd there are storms we cannot weatherI had a dream my life would beSo different from this hell I'm livingSo different now from what it seemedNow life has killed the dream I dreamed.
*The Confrontation, sung by Valjean and Javert:
**[JAVERT]Valjean, at last,We see each other plain`M'sieur le Mayor,'You'll wear a different chain!
**[VALJEAN]Before you say another word, JavertBefore you chain me up like a slave againListen to me! There is something I must do.This woman leaves behind a suffering child.There is none but me who can intercede,In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.Then I'll return, I pledge my word.Then I'll return...
**[JAVERT]You must think me mad!I've hunted you across the yearsA man like you can never changeA man such as you.
**[VALJEAN (in counterpoint)]Believe of me what you willThere is a duty that I'm sworn to doYou know nothing of my lifeAll I did was steal some breadYou know nothing of the worldYou would sooner see me deadBut not before I see this justicedoneI am warning you JavertI'm a stronger man by farThere is power in me yetMy race is not yet runI am warning you JavertThere is nothing I won't dareIf I have to kill you hereI'll do what must be done!
**[JAVERT (in counterpoint)]Men like me can never changeMen like you can never changeNo,24601My duty's to the law - you have noRightsCome with me 24601Now the wheel has turned aroundJean Valjean is nothing nowDare you talk to me of crimeAnd the price you had to payEvery man is born in sinEvery man must choose his wayYou know nothing of JavertI was born inside a jailI was born with scum like youI am from the gutter too!
**[Valjean breaks a chair and threatens Javert with the broken piece. Turns to Fantine]
**[VALJEAN][to Fantine] And this I swear to you tonight
**[JAVERT][to Valjean] There is no place for you to hide
**[VALJEAN]Your child will live within my care
**[JAVERT]Wherever you may hide away
**[VALJEAN]And I will raise her to the light.
**[VALJEAN AND JAVERT]I swear to you, I will be there!
**[They fight, Javert is knocked out. Valjean escapes]
*Castle on a Cloud, sung by Young Cosette:
**There is a castle on a cloud,I like to go there in my sleep,Aren't any floors for me to sweep,Not in my castle on a cloud.There is a lady all in white,Holds me and sings a lullaby,She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,She says "Cosette, I love you very much."I know a place where no one's lost,I know a place where no one cries,Crying at all is not allowed,Not in my castle on a cloud.
*Master of the House, sung by Thenadiers:
**Welcome M´sierSit yourself downAnd meet the bestInnkeeper in townAs for the restAll of them crooksRooking the guestsAnd cooking the booksSeldom do you seeHonest men like meA gent of good intentWho´s content to beMaster of the HouseSolding out the charmReady with a handshakeAnd an open palmTells a saucy taleMakes a little stirCustomers appreciate a bon viveur!Glad to do my friends a favourDoesn´t cost me to be niceBut nothing gets you nothingEv´rything has got a little priceMaster of the HouseKeeper of the zooReady relieve them of a sou, or twoWatering the wine making up the weightPicking up their knick-knacksWhen they can´t see strainghtEverybody loves a landlordEverybody´s bosom friendI do whatever pleases Jesus don´tI bleed them in the end!Master of the HouseQuick to catch yer eyeNever wants a passer byTo pass him byServant to the poorButler to the greatComforter, philosopherAnd lifelong mateEverybody´s boon companionEverybody´s chaperoneBut look up your valises Jesus!Won´t I skin yer to the bone!Enter M´sieurLay down yer loadUnlace yer bootsAnd rest from the roadThis weighs a tonTravel´s a curseBut here we striveTo lighten your purseHere the goose is cookedHere the fat is friendAnd nothing´s overlookedTill I´m satisfiedFood beyond compareFood beyond beliefMix it in a mincerAnd pretend it´s beefKidney of a horseLiver of a catFilling up the sausagesWith this and thatResidents are more than welcomeBridal suite is ocupiedReasonable chargesPlus some little extra on the sideCharge them for the niceExtra for the miceTwo per cent for looking in the mirror twiceHere a little sluceThere a litlle cutThree per cent for sleeping with the window shutWhen it comes to fixing pricesThere are lots of tricks to knowHow it all increasesAll them bits and pieces Jesus!It´s amazing how it growsMaster of the HouseQuick to catch yer eyeNever wants a passer byTo pass him byServant to the poorButtler to the greatComforter, philosopherAnd lifelong mateEverybody´s boon companionGives them everything he´s gotDirty bunch of greezers Jesus!What a sorry little lot!Bring ihn heimHerr mein Gott,Hör mein Fleh´nSteh mir bei,Laß kein Unrecht gescheh´n.Er ist jung,Laß ihn zieh´n.Hilf ihm auf,Segne ihn.Bring ihn heim.Bring ihn heim.Bring ihn heim.Er rührt mich wie mein eigner Sohn,Hätt Gott mir einen Sohn gewährt.Die Sommer flieh´n,UnbeschwertVerfliegen sieUm mich her,Und ich bin altUnd bleib nicht mehr.Laß ihn blüh´n,Liebesblind.Segne ihn,Er ist fast noch ein Kind.Herr, du nimmst,Herr, du gibst,Doch du schütztDie du liebst.Meinen Leib geb´ich hin,Laß ihn zieh´n, bring ihn heim,Bring ihn heim,Bring ihn heim.Bring him homeGod on high, hear my prayer.In my needYou have always been there.He is young.He´s afraid.Let him rest.Heaven blessed.Bring him homeBring him homeBring him peaceBring him joyHe is youngHe is only a boyYou can takeYou can giveLet him beLet him liveIf I dieLet me dieLet him home.He´s like the son I might have knownIf God had granted me a son.The summer die,One by one.How soon they fly,On and on.And I am oldAnd will be goneBring him liveBring him homeBring him homeBring him home.
*Suddenly, sung by Jean Valjean:
**Suddenly I seeSuddenly it startsWhen two anxious heartsBeat as one.Yesterday I was aloneToday you walk beside meSomething still unclearSomething not yet hereHas begun.Suddenly the worldSeems a different placeSomehow full of graceAnd delight.How was I to knowThat so much loveWas held inside me?Something fresh and youngSomething still unsungFills the night.How was I to know at lastThat happiness can come so fast?Trusting me the way you doI’m so afraid of failing youJust a child who cannot knowThat danger follows where I goThere are shadows everywhereAnd memories I cannot shareNevermore aloneNevermore apartYou have warmed my heartLike the sun.You have brought the gift of lifeAnd love so long denied me.Suddenly I seeWhat I could not seeSomething suddenlyHas begun.
*Stars, sung by Javert and Gavorche:
**JAVERTThere, out in the darknessA fugitive runningFallen from godFallen from graceGod be my witnessI never shall yieldTill we come face to faceTill we come face to faceHe knows his way in the darkMine is the way of the LordAnd those who follow the path of the righteousShall have their rewardAnd if they fallAs Lucifer fellThe flameThe sword!StarsIn your multitudesScarce to be countedFilling the darknessWith order and lightYou are the sentinelsSilent and sureKeeping watch in the nightKeeping watch in the nightYou know your place in the skyYou hold your course and your aimAnd each in your seasonReturns and returnsAnd is always the sameAnd if you fall as Lucifer fellYou fall in flame!And so it has been and so it is writtenOn the doorway to paradiseThat those who falter and those who fallMust pay the price!Lord let me find himThat I may see himSafe behind barsI will never restTill thenThis I swearThis I swear by the stars!GAVROCHEThat inspector thinks he's somethingBut it's me who runs this town!And my theater never closesAnd the curtain's never downTrust Gavroche, have no fearDon't you worry, auntie dear,You can always find me here!
*ABC Cafe/Red and Black, sung by Enjolras, Marius and Students:
**(The ABC Cafe, where the students, led by Enjolras, meet to discuss their revolutionary plans)COMBEFERREAt Notre Dame the sections are prepared!FEUILLYAt rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!COURFEYRACStudents, workers, everyoneThere's a river on the runLike the flowing of the tideParis coming to our side!ENJORASThe time is nearSo near it's stirring the blood in their veins!And yet bewareDon't let the wine go to your brains!For the army we fight is a dangerous foeWith the men and the arms that we never can matchIt is easy to sit here and swat 'em like fliesBut the national guard will be harder to catch.We need a signTo rally the peopleTo call them to armsTo bring them in line!(Marius enters)Marius, you're late.JOLYMarius what's wrong with you today?You look as if you've seen a ghost.GRANTAIRESome wine and say what's going on!MARIUSA ghost you say... a ghost maybeShe was just like a ghost to meOne minute there, and she was gone!GRANTAIREI am agog!I am aghast!Is Marius in love at last?I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'You talk of battles to be wonAnd here he comes like Don Ju-anIt's better than an o-per-a!ENJOLRASIt is time for us allTo decide who we areDo we fight for the rightTo a night at the opera now?Have you asked of yourselvesWhat's the price you might pay?Is it simply a gameFor rich young boys to play?The color of the worldIs changing day by day...Red - the blood of angry men!Black - the dark of ages past!Red - a world about to dawn!Black - the night that ends at last!MARIUSHad you been there tonightYou might know how it feelsTo be struck to the boneIn a moment of breathless delight!Had you been there tonightYou might also have knownHow the world may be changedIn just one burst of light!And what was right seems wrongAnd what was wrong seems right!GRANTAIRERed...MARIUSI feel my soul on fire!GRANTAIREBlack...MARIUSMy world if she's not there!ALLRed...MARIUSThe color of desire!ALLBlack...MARIUSThe color of despair!ENJOLRASMarius, you're no longer a childI do not doubt you mean it wellBut now there is a higher call.Who cares about your lonely soul?We strive toward a larger goalOur little lives don't count at all!ALLRed - the blood of angry men!Black - the dark of ages past!Red - a world about to dawn!Black - the night that ends at last!ENJOLRASWell, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.Grantaire, put the bottle down!Do we have the guns we need?GRANTAIREGive me brandy on my breathAnd I'll breathe them all to death!COURFEYRACIn St. Antoine they're with us to a man!COMBEFERREIn Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!FEUILLYTwenty rifles good as new!(Gavroche rushes in shouting)GAVROCHEListen!JOLYTwenty rounds for every man!GAVROCHEListen to me!JEAN PROUVAIREDouble that in Port St. Cloud!GAVROCHEListen everybody!LESGLESSeven guns in St. Martin!GAVROCHEGeneral Lamarque is dead!ENJOLRASLamarque is dead.Lamarque! His death is the hour of fate.The people's man.His death is the sign we await!On his funeral day they will honor his name.It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear!In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the flameThey will see that the day of salvation is near!The time is near!Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheerLet us take to the streets with no doubt in our heartsBut a jubilant shoutThey will come one and allThey will come when we call!
*In My Life/A Heart Full of Love, sung by Valjean, Cosette, Marius and Eponine:
**IN MY LIFE(Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet)COSETTEHow strangeThis feeling that my life's begun at lastThis change,Can people really fall in love so fast?What's the matter with you, Cosette?Have you been too much on your own?So many things unclearSo many things unknown.In my lifeThere are so many questions and answersThat somehow seem wrongIn my lifeThere are times when I catch in the silenceThe sigh of a faraway songAnd it singsOf a world that I long to seeOut of reachJust a whisper awayWaiting for me.Does he know I'm alive?Do I know if he's real?Does he see what I saw?Does he feel what I feel?In my lifeI'm no longer aloneNow the love in my lifeIs so nearFind me now, find me here!VALJEANDear Cosette,You're such a lonely childHow pensive, how sad you seem to meBelieve me, were it within my powerI'd fill each passing hourHow quiet it must be, I can seeWith only me for company.COSETTEThere's so little I knowThat I'm longing to knowOf the child that I wasIn a time long ago...There's so little you sayOf the life you have knownWhy you keep to yourselfWhy we're always aloneSo dark! So dark and deep...The secrets that you keep!In my lifeI have all that I wantYou are loving and gentle and goodBut Papa, dear Papa,In your eyes I am just like a childWho is lost in a woodVALJEANNo more wordsNo more words. It's a time that is deadThere are wordsThat are better unheard,Better unsaid.COSETTEIn my lifeI'm no longer a child and I yearnFor the truth that you knowOf the years... years ago!VALJEANYou will learnTruth is given by GodTo us all in our timeIn our turn(Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine arrive outside)MARIUSIn my lifeShe has burst like the music of angelsThe light of the sunAnd my life seems to stopAs if something is overAnd something has scarcely begun.EponineYou're the friend who has brought me hereThanks to you I am one with the godsAnd Heaven is near!And I soar through a world that is new that is freeEPONINE(to herself)Every word that he says is a dagger in me!In my lifeThere's been no one like him anywhereAnywhere, where he is...If he asked... I'd be hisMARIUS & EPONINEIn my lifeThere is someone who touches my lifeMARIUSWaiting nearEPONINEWaiting hereA Heart Full of Love(Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside the gate)MARIUSA heart full of loveA heart full of songI'm doing everything all wrongOh God, for shameI do not even know your nameDear Mad'moiselleWon't you say?Will you tell?COSETTEA heart full of loveNo fear, no regretM,ARIUSMy name is Marius PontmercyCOSETTEAnd mine's CosetteMARIUSCosette, I don't know what to sayCOSETTEThen make no soundMARIUSI am lostCOSETTEI am found!MARIUSA heart full of lightCOSETTEA night bright as dayMARIUSAnd you must never go awayCosette, CosetteCOSETTEThis is a chain we'll never breakMARIUSDo I dream?COSETTEI'm awake!MARIUSA heart full of loveCOSETTEA heart full of youMARIUSA single look and then I knewCOSETTEI knew it tooMARIUSFrom todayCOSETTEEvery dayCOSETTE & MARIUSFor it isn't a dreamNot a dream after all.EPONINE(Interjecting)He was never mine to loseWhy regret what cannot be?These are words he'll never sayNot to me...Not to me...Not to me...His heart full of loveHe will never feel this way...(Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)====A HEART FULL OF LOVE(Time has passed. Suggest Marius convalescing,encouraged by Cosette who takes his arm as he walks with firmer step)COSETTEEvery dayYou walk with stronger stepYou walk with longer step-`The worst is over.'MARIUSEvery dayI wonder every dayWho was it brought me hereFrom the barricade?COSETTEDon't think about it, Marius!With all the years ahead of us!I will never go awayAnd we will be togetherEvery day.Every day,We'll remember that nightAnd the vow that we made:A heart full of loveA night full of youThe words are oldBut always true.Oh, God, for shameYou did not even know my name!MARIUSDear Mad'moiselleI was lost in your spell.(Valjean enters, unnoticed)COSETTEA heart full of loveNo fear no regret`My name is Marius Pontmercy'MARIUSCosette, Cosette!COSETTEI saw you waiting and I knew.MARIUSWaiting for youAt your feetCOSETTEAt your callBOTHAnd it wasn't a dreamNot a dream after allVALJEAN(interjecting, to himself)She was never mine to keep.She is youthful, she is free.Love is the garden of the youngLet it be... let it be...A heart full of loveThis I give you on this day.(They notice Valjean)MARIUSM'sieur, this is a dayI can never forget.Is gratitude enoughFor giving me Cosette?Your home shall be with usAnd not a day shall passBut we will prove our loveTo you, whom we shall callA father to us bothA father to us all.(Cosette leaves)
*On My Own, sung by Eponine:
**EPONINEAnd now I'm all alone againNowhere to turn, no one to go toWithout a home, without a friend,Without a face to say hello to.And now the night is nearNow I can make believe he's here.Sometimes I walk alone at nightWhen everybody else is sleepingI think of him and then I'm happyWith the company I'm keepingThe city goes to bedAnd I can live inside my head.On my ownPretending he's beside meAll alone, I walk with him till morningWithout himI feel his arms around meAnd when I lose my way I close my eyesAnd he has found meIn the rain the pavement shines like silverAll the lights are misty in the riverIn the darkness, the trees are full of starlightAnd all I see is him and me for ever and foreverAnd I know it's only in my mindThat I'm talking to myself and not to himAnd although I know that he is blindStill I say, there's a way for usI love himBut when the night is overHe is gone, the river's just a riverWithout him the world around me changesThe trees are bare and everywhereThe streets are full of strangersI love himBut every day I'm learningAll my life I've only been pretendingWithout me his world will go on turningA world that's full of happinessThat I have never known!I love himI love himI love himBut only on my own.
*One Day More, sung by Valjean, Marius, Cosette, Eponine, Enjolras, Javert and the Thenadiers:
**VALJEANOne day more!Another day, another destiny.This never-ending road to Calvary;These men who seem to know my crimeWill surely come a second time.One day more!MARIUSI did not live until today.How can I live when we are parted?VALJEANOne day more.MARIUS & COSETTETomorrow you'll be worlds awayAnd yet with you, my world has started!EPONINEOne more day all on my own.MARIUS & COSETTEWill we ever meet again?EPONINEOne more day with him not caring.MARIUS & COSETTEI was born to be with you.EPONINEWhat a life I might have known.MARIUS & COSETTEAnd I swear I will be true!EPONINEBut he never saw me there!ENJOLRASOne more day before the storm!MARIUSDo I follow where she goes?ENJOLRASAt the barricades of freedom.MARIUSShall I join my brothers there?ENJOLRASWhen our ranks begin to formMARIUSDo I stay; and do I dare?ENJOLRASWill you take your place with me?ALLThe time is now, the day is here!VALJEANOne day more!JAVERTOne more day to revolution,We will nip it in the bud!I will join these little schoolboysThey will wet themselves with blood!VALJEANOne day more!M. & MME. THENARDIERWatch 'em run amuck,Catch 'em as they fall,Never know your luckWhen there's a free for all,Here a little `dip'There a little `touch'Most of them are gonersSo they won't miss much!Students (2 Groups)1: One day to a new beginning2: Raise the flag of freedom high!1: Every man will be a king2: Every man will be a king1: There's a new world for the winning2: There's a new world to be wonALLDo you hear the people sing?MARIUSMy place is here, I fight with you!VALJEANOne day more!MARIUS & COSETTEI did not live until today.EPONINEOne more day all on my own!MARIUS & COSETTEHow can I live when we are parted?JAVERT(overlapping)I will join these people's herosI will follow where they goI will learn their little Secrets,I will know the things they know.VALJEANOne day more!MARIUS & COSETTETomorrow you'll be worlds awayEPONINEWhat a life I might have known!MARIUS & COSETTEAnd yet with you my world has startedJAVERT(overlapping)One more day to revolutionWe will nip it in the budWe'll be ready for theseSchoolboysTHENARDIERS(overlapping)Watch 'em run amokCatch 'em as they fallNever know your luckWhen there's a free-for-all!VALJEANTomorrow we'll be far away,Tomorrow is the judgement dayALLTomorrow we'll discoverWhat our God in Heaven has in store!One more dawnOne more dayOne day more!
*Drink with Me, sung by Marius and Gavorche:
**(The defenders settle down for the night with wine and a song)ENJOLRASMarius, rest.FEUILLYDrink with me to days gone bySing with me the songs we knewPROUVAIREHere's to pretty girls who went to our heads.JOLYHere's to witty girls who went to our beds.ALLHere's to them and here's to you!GRANTAIREDrink with me to days gone byCan it be you fear to die?Will the world remember youWhen you fall?Could it be your deathMeans nothing at all?Is your life just one more lie?ALLDrink with me to days gone byTo the life that used to beWOMENAt the shrine of friendship, never stay darkMENLet the wine of friendship never run dryALLHere's to you and here's to meMARIUSDo I care if I should dieNow she goes across the sea?Life without CosetteMeans nothing at all.Would you weep, Cosette,Should Marius fall?Will you weep, Cosette,For me?(Marius settles down to sleep)
*Bring Him Home, sung by Jean Valjean:
**(Valjean is standing over Marius at the barricade)VALJEANGod on highHear my prayerIn my needYou have always been thereHe is youngHe's afraidLet him restHeaven blessed.Bring him homeBring him homeBring him home.He's like the son I might have knownIf God had granted me a son.The summers dieOne by oneHow soon they flyOn and onAnd I am oldAnd will be gone.Bring him peaceBring him joyHe is youngHe is only a boyYou can takeYou can giveLet him beLet him liveIf I die, let me dieLet him liveBring him homeBring him homeBring him home.
*The Final Battle, sung by Enjolras and Combeferre:
**ARMY OFFICER(with loud hailer)You at the barricade listen to thisThe people of Paris sleep in their bedsYou have no chanceNo chance at allWhy throw your lives away?ENJOLRASLet us die facing our foesMake them bleed while we canCOMBEFERREMake 'em pay through the noseCOURFEYRACMake 'em pay for every man!ENJOLRASLet others riseTo take our placeUntil the earth is free!Increasingly heavy gunfire.MARIUS is shot.Enjolras is killed at the summit of the barricade.All on the barricade are killed, except MARIUS,who is wounded and unconscious, and Valjean.Valjean discovers that Marius is still alive andcarries him down into the sewers to escape.Javert climbs over the barricade looking for Valjean's body. Failing to find it, he realizes that Valjean must be in thesewers, so he goes off to where he must emerge.
*Javert's Suicide, sung by Javert:
**(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine)JAVERTWho is this man?What sort of devil is heTo have me caught in a trapAnd choose to let me go free?It was his hour at lastTo put a seal on my fateWipe out the pastAnd wash me clean off the slate!All it would takeWas a flick of his knife.Vengeance was hisAnd he gave me back my life!If I'll live in the debt of a thief!If I'll yield at the end of the chase.I am the Law and the Law is not mockedI'll spit his pity right back in his faceThere is nothing on earth that we shareIt is either Valjean or Javert!How can I now allow this manTo hold dominion over me?This desperate man whom I have huntedHe gave me my life. He gave me freedom.I should have perished by his handIt was his right.It was my right to die as wellInstead I live... but live in hell.And my thoughts fly apartCan this man be believed?Shall his sins be forgiven?Shall his crimes be reprieved?And must I now begin to doubt,Who never doubted all these years?My heart is stone and still it tremblesThe world I have known is lost in shadow.Is he from heaven or from hell?And does he knowThat granting me my life todayThis man has killed me even so?I am reaching, but I fallAnd the stars are black and coldAs I stare into the voidOf a world that cannot holdI'll escape now from the worldFrom the world of Jean Valjean.There is nowhere I can turnThere is no way to go on....(He throws himself into the swollen river)
*Empy Chairs at Empty Tables, sung by Marius:
**(Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he is back at the ABC cafe)MARIUSThere's a grief that can't be spoken.There's a pain goes on and on.Empty chairs at empty tablesNow my friends are dead and gone.Here they talked of revolution.Here it was they lit the flame.Here they sang about `tomorrow'And tomorrow never came.From the table in the cornerThey could see a world rebornAnd they rose with voices ringingI can hear them now!The very words that they had sungBecame their last communionOn the lonely barricade at dawn.Oh my friends, my friends forgive me(The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear)That I live and you are gone.There's a grief that can't be spoken.There's a pain goes on and on.Phantom faces at the window.Phantom shadows on the floor.Empty chairs at empty tablesWhere my friends will meet no more.(The ghosts fade away)Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask meWhat your sacrifice was forEmpty chairs at empty tablesWhere my friends will meet no more
*Epilogue, sung by Jean Valjean, Eponine, Fantine, Cosette and Cast:
**Valjean:Now you are hereAgain beside meNow I can die in peaceFor now my life is bestCosette:You will live,Papa you're going to live!It's too soon, too soon to say goodbyeValjean:Yes Cosette, forbid me now to dieI'll obey, I will tryOn this page, I write my last confessionRead it well, for I at last am sleepingIt's a story of those who always loved youYour mother gave her life for youthen gave you to my keepingFantine:Come with meWhere chains will never bind youAll your grief at last at last behind youLord in heaven, look down on him in mercy!Valjean:Forgive me all my trustpassesand take me to your gloryEponine & Fantine:Take my hand, and lead me to salvationTake my love, for love is everlastingAnd remember the truth that once was spoken(Valjean joins)To love another person is to see the face of God!Chrous:Do you hear the people sing?Lost in te valley of the nightIt is the music of a people who are climbing to the lightFor the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never diesEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.They will live again in freedom in the garden of the LordThey will walk behind the ploughshed, the will put away the sword.The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?Somewhere beyond the baricade is there a world you long to see?Do you hear the people sing? Say do you hear the distant drumsIt is the future that they bring when tomorrow comesWill you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?Somewhere beyond the baricade is there a world you long to see?Do you hear the people sing? Say do you hear the distant drums?It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes!(singing chords)Tomorrow comes!!!
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