The two pampered children wander the streets of Paris alone. Gavroche is slyly watching a barber, waiting to steal a cake of soap from his shop, when he sees the two pitiful children. He takes them under his wing not knowing that they are literally his blood brothers, and uses a coin he found to buy them all a bit of bread. On the way, he sees a young girl dressed in rags and gives her his shawl.
Night is falling. Gavroche brings the boys to his unique home - a massive statue of an elephant next to the Bastille. The elephant is hollow inside, and Gavroche reveals a ladder that allows them to get inside. It is peculiar, but it is a cozy shelter against the cold and rain.
The monument was intended to be a grand spectacle for the new France, but instead it has become a shelter for a child. Gavroche chats with the two boys in his usual manner of gruff bravado and tender care. Seeing the terror of the two lost children, he regales them with stories of the street urchin's life: seeing operas, swimming in the summer, teasing washerwomen, and so on.
He settles the two boys down in his bed, which is constructed under a shelter of mosquito net and chicken wire. The reason for this strange contraption is quickly revealed: when the candle is blown out, the rats that also take shelter in the elephant rush out in droves, excited by the scent of human flesh. They rattle the wire. One of the boys asks Gavroche why he doesn't get a cat to deal with the rats. Gavroche replies that he tries this, but the rats ate it.
Still, the two boys and Gavroche fall into an exhausted sleep. Gavroche is awakened by a strange cry, and shimmies out of the elephant to find his criminal friend Montparnasse, who enlists his help in a prison break. Back in the prison, Brujon and Gueulemer have escaped with the help of a nail and a rope, and they meet up with Montparnasse and Babet. He slips out of the prison and dashes across the roofs of the prison - only to find out the rope is too short.
He hears his friends from the Patron-Minette gang discussing him below, and throws his useless rope to get their attention. The criminals begin to discuss their next mark, which happens to be a certain house on the Rue Plumet. Cosette and Marius are madly in love, and Marius visits her every evening in her garden.
The love they share is totally consuming, but it is not a sexual love; the two do not even kiss, they merely hold hands and talk.
They talk about their lives, their thoughts when they first saw each other, even their thoughts on trifling matters such as coughing and nature. Valjean remains completely unaware of their visits. Trouble looms on the horizon. He sees her again in the evening before he does to meet Cosette, and turns down an alley to avoid her.
She follows him, taking shelter in shadows outside the gate. Six men appear in the shadows. Her love for Marius first endangers, then saves his life. Spoiled at first, her life becomes as miserable as her sister's.
He dies heroically at the barricades in the revolution of Given by their parents to an acquaintance, Magnon, they wander the streets of Paris after she is arrested.
Gavroche's protection gives them temporary solace. Inspector Javert An incorruptible policeman. He makes it his life's work to track down Jean Valjean. Fauchelevent Valjean, as Madeleine, saves his life; Fauchelevent later is gardener at the convent of the Little Picpus and gives shelter to Valjean and Cosette.
Bamatabois An idler of the town who torments Fantine by putting snow down her back. Champmathieu The man accused of being Jean Valjean, on whose behalf "Madeleine" reveals his true identity. Boulatruelle An old roadworker, ex-convict, and minor associate of the underworld chiefs. He is constantly seeking buried treasure in the forest near Montfermeil. The Prioress Head of the convent where Valjean and Cosette live for several years.
Mestienne and Gribier The two gravediggers. Mestienne, friend of Fauchelevent, dies suddenly, and his place is taken by Gribier, nearly causing Valjean to be buried alive. Gillenormand Relic of the Enlightenment, he is hostile to the romantic love and liberal politics of his grandson Marius.
Gillenormand Gillenormand's daughter, a lackluster old maid whose interests are limited to devotional practices. Marius Pontmercy An idealistic student who falls passionately in love with Cosette and later marries her. Colonel Georges Pontmercy Marius' father, an officer of Napoleon's, named by him a colonel, a baron, and an officer of the Legion of Honor. Gillenormand's grandnephew.
Previous Next. As we might recall from earlier, Monsieur Gillenormand Marius' grandfather has a maid named Magnon whose two sons require the old man's financial support. One day, though, these sons die from an infectious disease. Magnon eventually gets herself arrested while the two boys are out playing. They come home and find out that there's no longer any home for them there.
A neighbor tells them what happened and gives them a piece of paper with an address written on it. But the paper blows out of their hands in the wind and they become lost.
The two boys set out into the cold night to find shelter. The two children eventually come into a barbershop and ask for help, but the barber violently chases them away.
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