An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Valjean ancestors lived in harsh conditions. After almost burying Valjean alive in a scheme to get him out of the convent so that he could openly walk back into the convent, Fauchelevent was able to bring in his "brother" Ultimas (fr. Ultime) Fauchelevent (the real name of Fauchelevent's deceased brother). Between 1968 and 2004, in the United States, Valjean life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1968, and highest in 2004. Realizing that Thénardier had seen Valjean saving him, Marius finishes with Thénardier and hurries with Cosette to Valjean's flat. He is happy to see that the brand wound he got during the attack makes her worry and care for him more. Les Misérables Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community. Valjean managed to steal a rope from a streetlamp, climb a wall to a convent and pull Cosette up after him. As an employer he has a clear idea of what he owes to his employees, and more than makes up for his failings in the case of Fantine, once he finds out about them. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more. He could lift a heavily loaded cart by himself, though with considerable effort; he could climb a wall without any equipment; he could stay in the sea at sunset long enough to be presumed dead; and he could carry a young man singlehandedly for likely miles, when he was already exhausted on top of being old (by the June Rebellion, he would've been 62 or 63 years old, depending on his birthday). In the novel, Valjean is arrested for the second time after confessing to be a parole-breaker in court. Valjean makes peace with Marius, with whom he had uneasy relations, and tells Cosette the name of her mother, Fantine. They barely manage to get away from Javert, who allowed Valjean to leave the house, believing that Valjean would take him to meet other criminals. As he walks up the stairs, Valjean looks out the window and notices that Javert is gone. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, When Valjean attempts to book a room at an inn, he shows his yellow passport to identify himself, causing the owner and his wife to deny him service on account that they are law-abiding subjects of the Crown and God-fearing people who will not have anything to do with crooks. He became a pruner and helped support his widowed sister and her seven children. Madeleine turns pale, but gets down into the mud and lifts the wagon off Fauchelevent. As a young man he was keenly aware of his role as the provider of his family and never complained when some of his food was given instead to the children. The Bargain/The Thénardier Waltz of Treachery, Building the Barricade (Upon These Stones), https://lesmiserables.fandom.com/wiki/Jean_Valjean?oldid=29294. Hugo then details Valjean's background. A woman sees him trying to find a shelter, and tells him to go to the church, where he encounters bishop Myriel of Digne who turns his life around by showing him mercy and encouraging him to become a changed man. He joins the rebellion without an actual decision about his following actions. His parents died when he was very young, leaving him with his older sister to fend for him. Valjean's story depicts his struggles to live a good life in God's name following a prison sentence for stealing bread for his destitute family. They are described only as a father and daughter, whom Marius notices on his daily walks in the Jardin du Luxembourg. However, when winter came there was no further need for tree pruners. This earned him a reputation for it, and the nickname Jean le Cric ('Jean the Jack', as in the thing you use to lift a car to change the tires). Valjean does not know that Cosette returns Marius' love and does not understand why Cosette seems less attached to "her grandfather" than before. He is a strange man, who arrives one October evening in Digne, searches for a place to stay the night and is turned away. Valjean was assigned a new number of 9430, but escapes from a sailing vessel after only a few months' imprisonment, on 16 November 1823, by apparently falling into the sea after a daring rescue of a sailor who had gotten stuck in a dangerous situation up in the ship's rigging. The request is granted and Valjean takes Javert out of sight to kill him but instead of executing him, sets him free, though Javert warns that he will still be bound to arrest Valjean. Valjean threatens him with his stick when he attempts to rouse Valjean from his reverie and retrieve his piece. View Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for Valjean. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Valjean surname lived. During winter he couldn't find work, which made him desperate enough to break the law. He orders Javert to remain at his post, but learns where and when the trial is to be held. Valjean goes to Montfermeil, where he meets Cosette alone in the forest on Christmas Eve, 1823. Javert believed her and left, giving Valjean an opportunity to escape the town. He was illiterate before he went to prison. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange; During the night, he awakens and steals the bishop's silverware and silver plates, and runs off. In desperation, he broke the window of a baker named Maubert Isabeau in order to steal bread to feed his sister's children. Valjean takes Fantine to the local hospital (which is on the side of the mayor's house) and has her cared for. This takes places during the first days of June 1832. During one of their walks, they witness the passing of a chain gang being taken from Paris south. He declines the king's offer to make him a Knight of the Legion of Honor. But it is also Éponine, jealous, who throws Valjean an anonymous note, telling him to move. A short chapter, mainly consisting of two newspaper articles, informs the reader, that Jean Valjean has been re-arrested while getting into the stagecoach to Montfermeil (on his way to get Fantine's eight-year-old daughter, Cosette, whom he had promised to rescue). He recognises Valjean and decides to build a trap for him. The book opens on Montreuil-sur-Mer, where a laborer by the name of Madeleine has set up several jet factories. Marius sees through Thénardier's disguise and, in an attempt to show Marius something that he does not already know, Thénardier shows newspaper clippings proving that M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean are the same person, and that Javert committed suicide. He ignores them at first, but later he and Cosette fall in love. While aboard the boat Orion, he asks to be freed so he can help a man whose life is in danger. While the job only paid the paltry sum of 18 sous a day, Valjean used his meager profits to do what he could for his family. Upon Valjean's release, he is issued a passport jaune, or "yellow passport", which he is required to show for identification or present to the police lieutenant of any village he passes through. His efforts lead to him taking several aliases, and focuses on his care for the dying Fantine and then her daughter Cosette. Valjean's strength, stamina, and agility are repeatedly remarked upon throughout the story. Satisfied that there was no robbery, the police drop the accusation, causing Valjean to seriously consider the bishop's recommendation. Simply start with a family member and we'll do the searching for you. This makes Mme. In 1817, Fantine comes and is employed at his women's factory, only to be dismissed some time later when word reaches the foreman that she has a child out of wedlock. Valjean went into his father's line of work, getting a job in Faverolles as a tree pruner. After Valjean releases Javert, the fighters on the barricades are all killed with the exception of Marius, whom Valjean carries to safety through miles of Parisian sewers. This gets him a lot of attention, and the king appoints him mayor twice and nominates him as a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honor. He has also heard of a man, poorly dressed, who gives money to other poor people, the "beggar who gives alms", who had a granddaughter with him and who has been heard to say that she came from Montfermeil. They begin meeting every evening to gaze into each other's eyes. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations. He died when he no longer had his angel. He entered the galleys in Toulon in 1796 and left in 1815. He sleeps. As a result, Valjean was laid off and his family starved. The relationship of Javert and Valjean develops as a binary opposition between law and love. You can see how Valjean families moved over time by selecting different census years. Returning to Paris, he's arrested again just as he's boarding the coach to Montfermeil. [3] Hugo's description of Valjean rescuing a sailor on the Orion drew almost word for word on a friend's letter describing such an incident. In both the French and English musical versions, Valjean's initial prisoner number is 24601, true to the novel. He tells a passing priest his name, and the name of the young chimney-sweep, and this allows the police to charge him with armed robbery, a sentence  that, if he were caught again, would return him to prison with a death-sentence. While sitting and pondering on what bishop Myriel had said, he accidentally puts his foot on a forty-sous piece dropped by a young chimney-sweep named Petit Gervais. Unable to accept this, he commits suicide. He revolutionizes the town's manufacturing and earns a fortune, which he spends mostly for the town's good, paying for the maintenance (including required staff) of hospital beds, orphanages and schools. Javert then apologizes to "M. Madeleine", and tells him that the "real" Jean Valjean has been found and is to be tried the next day. They meet again by pure luck, six months later: Valjean is known for his generosity. In the musical, Valjean neither gets arrested again nor escapes from prison. He was the editor of the Portsmouth Blade and was one of the best known editors in Ohio during the time he was able to look after his editorial work. He was sent to prison for five years for "burglary at night in an inhabited house". He gives his evidence and proves that he is the real Jean Valjean, but nobody wants to arrest him, so Valjean says that they know where to find him and he returns to Montreuil-sur-Mer. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status. Fantine enters a decline, which she blames on Madeleine, and finally comes to his attention in 1823, when she assaults a citizen named Bamatabois and is arrested by Inspector Javert. The event leaves a profound impression on Cosette and makes Valjean even more determined to stop his daughter from learning about his past. To thank him, Enjolras, the barricade's leader, offers him anything he wants. 50-52 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in the so-called "Gorbeau House." Valjean is also known in the novel as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre. His life turns around when Bishop Myriel of Digne, from whom he steals valuable silverware, tells the police that he has given the treasure to Valjean.

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