From the Classiques Larousse series The battle of Waterloo, Paris, barricades, mills and factoires... Fantine, Cosette, Jean Valjean, Street urchin, Th nardier... Events, places and most famous heroes of all French literature in an adventure story, novel of passion and of hate, of revenge and of forgiveness, in turn tragic and odd, violent and emotional, historical and legendary, black and poetic. The author of the work of Victor Hugo, thousand times adapted and translated. Discover in his original version.