1.Victor Hugo──One of the Greatest French Writer

    Victor Marie Hugo is one of the representatives of Romanticism(浪漫主義). He was at first famous for his talent on writing poems. 

    At the most tumultuous periods in France, he produced many representative works, which is about the politics or the miserable situations of the citizens.

    One of the others his famous novels is 《Notre-Dame de Paris》(法文原譯:巴黎聖母院), which is renamed in Chinese:《鐘樓怪人》. Like《Les Miserables》, it was adapt for musicals or movies.

The musical of 《Notre-Dame de Paris》.

The musical of  《Les Miserables》.

The movie of《Les Miserables》.

2.The Story

    In 1801, a poor farmer named Jean Valjean was put into prison for 19 years because of stealing a loaf of bread and trying to escape.

    Although he was discriminate by the public because he had a yellow passport, Bishop Myriel gave him shelter and then encouraged him to be a promising and honest person.

    But he still obeyed his human nature and robbed 40-sous coin from 12-year-old Petit Gervais.

    For this, he became an escapee.

    After six years, Valjean, replaced by his new name──Monsieur Madeleine, became a wealthy factory owner and was appointed to be the mayor of a town.

    Then he met  Fantine, and promised her to take her daughter, Cosette to her.

    When dealing the case that Fantine had encountered in, he enraged a adjutant guard(檢察官) named  Javert, who guess him to be the escapee, Jean Valjean, and then get into a series of troubles and heart-stuggling...

3.My Thought

    Although the story is really long, contains much knowledge of the historical background that we actually don't need to know, some parts, such as the description of the emotion, agony between  the honesty and the fame...etc are very worth reading.

    People don't have time to read can watch the musical version, it will move you not only by the touching story but also by the graceful melody!