As Fantine's daughter, Cosette is a servant for the Thénardiers in Paris. Valjean rescues her at age eight and raises her in Paris, unaware of her past. At seventeen, she meets Marius and falls in ...

The story of Les Misérables (the book), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862, is set in post-revolutionary France, beginning in 1815, more than two decades after the French Revolution ...

Les Miserables” is one of my favorite stories. I thought I fell in love with “Les Mis” (forget the full name, no one can ...

Instead, she’s at peace and hopeful. Fantine could not provide the life that Cosette needed to thrive in revolutionary France but the mother’s decision to place her in the care of Jean Valjean ...

Here little Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, is seen performing drudgery and menial tasks. The Thenardiers are treating their own children kindly, but are cruel to Cosette.

Alongside Valjean’s journey, the story also follows Fantine, a woman who is forced to entrust her daughter, Cosette, to the ...