Paris - Sites from the Novel

The Paris of Les Misérables was a very different place from the Paris of today, full of narrow, winding streets instead of the present-day boulevards. Many of the spots where the action of the book took place have been destroyed or completely transformed since the mid-19th century, but even in modern Paris the traces still remain...

• The site of the barricade
• Javert's jump into the Seine
• The Café Musain
• Rue Plumet
• Napoléon's Elephant
• The Jardin du Luxembourg
• Marius and Cosette's wedding
• The Gorbeau Tenement
• The Field of the Lark
• Rue de l'Homme-Armé
• M. Gillenormand's apartment
• Marius' lodgings with Courfeyrac
• Thénardier's escape from La Force
• The Sewers

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