class="tdr">I. 

THE COMMENCEMENT OF REPOSE II.  HOW "JEAN" MAY BECOME "CHAMP"  
BOOK VII. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR.
  I.  SISTER SIMPLICE II.  SCAUFFLAIRE'S PERSPICACITY III.  A TEMPEST IN A BRAIN IV.  SUFFERINGS IN SLEEP V.  OBSTACLES VI.  SISTER SIMPLICE IS SORELY TRIED VII.  THE TRAVELLER TAKES PRECAUTIONS
FOR RETURNING VIII.  INSIDE THE COURT IX.  THE TRIAL X.  THE SYSTEM OF DENIAL XI.  CHAMPMATHIEU IS ASTOUNDED  
BOOK VIII. THE COUNTERSTROKE.
  I.  M. MADELEINE LOOKS AT HIS HAIR II.  FANTINE IS HAPPY III.  JAVERT IS SATISFIED IV.  AUTHORITY RESUMES ITS RIGHTS V.  A VERY PROPER TOMB

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

VICTOR HUGO (1828) Vol. I. Frontispiece.

"'YOUR BLESSING,' SAID THE BISHOP, AND KNELT DOWN"
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

FAUCHELEVENT AND THE GRAVE-DIGGER, Vol. II. Frontispiece
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

"SHE GLIDED ALONG RATHER THAN WALKED"
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

MARIUS Vol. III. Frontispiece
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

"ONE MORNING WHEN THE SUN WAS SHINING, AND BOTH
WERE ON THE GARDEN STEPS" Vol. IV. Frontispiece
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

RECRUITS
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

"THE DEATH OF JEAN VALJEAN" Vol. V. Frontispiece
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

THE DEATH OF GAVROCHE
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

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FANTINE.

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BOOK I.

A JUST MAN.

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CHAPTER I.

M. MYRIEL.

In 1815 M. Charles François Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D——. He was a man of about seventy-five years of age, and had held the see of D—— since 1806. Although the following details in no way affect our narrative, it may not be useless to quote the rumors that were current about him at the moment when he came to the diocese, for what is said of men, whether it be true or false, often occupies as much space in their life, and especially in their destiny, as what they do. M. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Aix Parliament. It was said that his father, who intended that he should be his successor, married him at the age of eighteen or twenty, according to a not uncommon custom in parliamentary families. Charles Myriel, in spite of this marriage (so people said), had been the cause of much tattle. He was well built, though of short stature, elegant, graceful, and witty; and the earlier part of his life was devoted to the world and to gallantry. The Revolution came, events hurried on, and the parliamentary families, decimated and hunted down, became dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy in the early part of the Revolution, and his wife, who had been long suffering from a chest complaint, died there, leaving no children. What next took place in M. Myriel's destiny? Did the overthrow of the old French society, the fall of his own family, and the tragic spectacles of '93, more frightful perhaps to the emigrés who saw them from a distance with the magnifying power of terror, cause ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he,