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		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables, Volume 3: Marius, Book Fourth: The Friends of the ABC, Chapter 3: Marius' Astonishments&lt;br /&gt; (Tome 3: Marius, Livre quatri&amp;egrave;me:  Les amis de l'AB...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Les Misérables, Volume 3: Marius, Book Fourth: The Friends of the ABC, Chapter 3: Marius&amp;#039; Astonishments&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; (Tome 3: Marius, Livre quatrième:  Les amis de l&amp;#039;AB...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les Mis&amp;amp;eacute;rables, Volume 3: Marius, Book Fourth: The Friends of the ABC, Chapter 3: Marius' Astonishments&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Tome 3: Marius, Livre quatri&amp;amp;egrave;me:  Les amis de l'ABC, Chapitre 3: Les &amp;amp;eacute;tonnements de Marius)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==General notes on this chapter==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==French text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
En quelques jours, Marius fut l'ami de Courfeyrac. La jeunesse est la&lt;br /&gt;
saison des promptes soudures et des cicatrisations rapides. Marius pr&amp;amp;egrave;s&lt;br /&gt;
de Courfeyrac respirait librement, chose assez nouvelle pour lui.&lt;br /&gt;
Courfeyrac ne lui fit pas de questions. Il n'y songea m&amp;amp;ecirc;me pas. &amp;amp;Agrave; cet&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;acirc;ge, les visages disent tout de suite tout. La parole est inutile. Il y&lt;br /&gt;
a tel jeune homme dont on pourrait dire que sa physionomie bavarde. On&lt;br /&gt;
se regarde, on se conna&amp;amp;icirc;t.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Un matin pourtant, Courfeyrac lui jeta brusquement cette interrogation:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;&amp;amp;Agrave; propos, avez-vous une opinion politique?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Tiens! dit Marius, presque offens&amp;amp;eacute; de la question.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Qu'est-ce que vous &amp;amp;ecirc;tes?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;D&amp;amp;eacute;mocrate-bonapartiste.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Nuance gris de souris rassur&amp;amp;eacute;e, dit Courfeyrac.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Le lendemain, Courfeyrac introduisit Marius au caf&amp;amp;eacute; Musain. Puis il lui&lt;br /&gt;
chuchota &amp;amp;agrave; l'oreille avec un sourire: Il faut que je vous donne vos&lt;br /&gt;
entr&amp;amp;eacute;es dans la r&amp;amp;eacute;volution. Et il le mena dans la salle des Amis de l'A&lt;br /&gt;
B C. Il le pr&amp;amp;eacute;senta aux autres camarades en disant &amp;amp;agrave; demi-voix ce simple&lt;br /&gt;
moi que Marius ne comprit pas: Un &amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;egrave;ve.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Marius &amp;amp;eacute;tait tomb&amp;amp;eacute; dans un gu&amp;amp;ecirc;pier d'esprits. Du reste, quoique&lt;br /&gt;
silencieux et grave, il n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait ni le moins ail&amp;amp;eacute; ni le moins arm&amp;amp;eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Marius, jusque-l&amp;amp;agrave; solitaire et inclinant au monologue et &amp;amp;agrave; l'apart&amp;amp;eacute; par&lt;br /&gt;
habitude et par go&amp;amp;ucirc;t, fut un peu effarouch&amp;amp;eacute; de cette vol&amp;amp;eacute;e de jeunes&lt;br /&gt;
gens autour de lui. Toutes ces initiatives diverses le sollicitaient &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
la fois, et le tiraillaient. Le va-et-vient tumultueux de tous ces&lt;br /&gt;
esprits en libert&amp;amp;eacute; et en travail faisait tourbillonner ses id&amp;amp;eacute;es.&lt;br /&gt;
Quelquefois, dans le trouble, elles s'en allaient si loin de lui qu'il&lt;br /&gt;
avait de la peine &amp;amp;agrave; les retrouver. Il entendait parler de philosophie,&lt;br /&gt;
de litt&amp;amp;eacute;rature, d'art, d'histoire, de religion, d'une fa&amp;amp;ccedil;on inattendue.&lt;br /&gt;
Il entrevoyait des aspects &amp;amp;eacute;tranges; et comme il ne les mettait point en&lt;br /&gt;
perspective, il n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait pas s&amp;amp;ucirc;r de ne pas voir le chaos. En quittant les&lt;br /&gt;
opinions de son grand-p&amp;amp;egrave;re pour les opinions de son p&amp;amp;egrave;re, il s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait cru&lt;br /&gt;
fix&amp;amp;eacute;; il soup&amp;amp;ccedil;onnait maintenant, avec inqui&amp;amp;eacute;tude et sans oser se&lt;br /&gt;
l'avouer, qu'il ne l'&amp;amp;eacute;tait pas. L'angle sous lequel il voyait toute&lt;br /&gt;
chose commen&amp;amp;ccedil;ait de nouveau &amp;amp;agrave; se d&amp;amp;eacute;placer. Une certaine oscillation&lt;br /&gt;
mettait en branle tous les horizons de son cerveau. Bizarre remue-m&amp;amp;eacute;nage&lt;br /&gt;
int&amp;amp;eacute;rieur. Il en souffrait presque.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Il semblait qu'il n'y e&amp;amp;ucirc;t pas pour ces jeunes gens de &amp;amp;laquo;choses&lt;br /&gt;
consacr&amp;amp;eacute;es&amp;amp;raquo;. Marius entendait, sur toute mati&amp;amp;egrave;re, des langages&lt;br /&gt;
singuliers, g&amp;amp;ecirc;nants pour son esprit encore timide.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Une affiche de th&amp;amp;eacute;&amp;amp;acirc;tre se pr&amp;amp;eacute;sentait, orn&amp;amp;eacute;e d'un titre de trag&amp;amp;eacute;die du&lt;br /&gt;
vieux r&amp;amp;eacute;pertoire, dit classique.&amp;amp;mdash;&amp;amp;Agrave; bas la trag&amp;amp;eacute;die ch&amp;amp;egrave;re aux bourgeois!&lt;br /&gt;
criait Bahorel. Et Marius entendait Combeferre r&amp;amp;eacute;pliquer:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Tu as tort, Bahorel. La bourgeoisie aime la trag&amp;amp;eacute;die, et il faut&lt;br /&gt;
laisser sur ce point la bourgeoisie tranquille. La trag&amp;amp;eacute;die &amp;amp;agrave; perruque a&lt;br /&gt;
sa raison d'&amp;amp;ecirc;tre, et je ne suis pas de ceux qui, de par Eschyle, lui&lt;br /&gt;
contestent le droit d'exister. Il y a des &amp;amp;eacute;bauches dans la nature; il y&lt;br /&gt;
a, dans la cr&amp;amp;eacute;ation, des parodies toutes faites; un bec qui n'est pas un&lt;br /&gt;
bec, des ailes qui ne sont pas des ailes, des nageoires qui ne sont pas&lt;br /&gt;
des nageoires, des pattes qui ne sont pas des pattes, un cri douloureux&lt;br /&gt;
qui donne envie de rire, voil&amp;amp;agrave; le canard. Or, puisque la volaille existe&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;agrave; c&amp;amp;ocirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; de l'oiseau, je ne vois pas pourquoi la trag&amp;amp;eacute;die classique&lt;br /&gt;
n'existerait point en face de la trag&amp;amp;eacute;die antique.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Ou bien le hasard faisait que Marius passait rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau&lt;br /&gt;
entre Enjolras et Courfeyrac.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Courfeyrac lui prenait le bras.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Faites attention. Ceci est la rue Pl&amp;amp;acirc;tri&amp;amp;egrave;re, nomm&amp;amp;eacute;e aujourd'hui rue&lt;br /&gt;
Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, &amp;amp;agrave; cause d'un m&amp;amp;eacute;nage singulier qui l'habitait il&lt;br /&gt;
y a une soixantaine d'ann&amp;amp;eacute;es. C'&amp;amp;eacute;taient Jean-Jacques et Th&amp;amp;eacute;r&amp;amp;egrave;se. De&lt;br /&gt;
temps en temps, il naissait l&amp;amp;agrave; de petits &amp;amp;ecirc;tres. Th&amp;amp;eacute;r&amp;amp;egrave;se les enfantait,&lt;br /&gt;
Jean-Jacques les enfantrouvait.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Et Enjolras rudoyait Courfeyrac.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;Silence devant Jean-Jacques! Cet homme, je l'admire. Il a reni&amp;amp;eacute; ses&lt;br /&gt;
enfants, soit; mais il a adopt&amp;amp;eacute; le peuple.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Aucun de ces jeunes gens n'articulait ce mot: l'empereur. Jean Prouvaire&lt;br /&gt;
seul disait quelquefois Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on; tous les autres disaient Bonaparte.&lt;br /&gt;
Enjolras pronon&amp;amp;ccedil;ait ''Buonaparte''. Marius s'&amp;amp;eacute;tonnait vaguement. ''Initium&lt;br /&gt;
sapientiæ''.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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==English text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the season&lt;br /&gt;
for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius breathed freely&lt;br /&gt;
in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. Courfeyrac put no&lt;br /&gt;
questions to him. He did not even think of such a thing. At that age,&lt;br /&gt;
faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are superfluous. There are&lt;br /&gt;
young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One&lt;br /&gt;
looks at them and one knows them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation to&lt;br /&gt;
him:&amp;amp;mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;By the way, have you any political opinions?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The idea!&amp;quot; said Marius, almost affronted by the question.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A democrat-Bonapartist.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The gray hue of a reassured rat,&amp;quot; said Courfeyrac.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Cafe Musain.&lt;br /&gt;
Then he whispèred in his ear, with a smile: &amp;quot;I must give you your entry to&lt;br /&gt;
the revolution.&amp;quot; And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B C.&lt;br /&gt;
He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which&lt;br /&gt;
Marius did not understand: &amp;quot;A pupil.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was&lt;br /&gt;
silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to asides,&lt;br /&gt;
both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey of young&lt;br /&gt;
men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his attention at&lt;br /&gt;
once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of these minds at&lt;br /&gt;
liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, in his trouble,&lt;br /&gt;
they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in recovering them. He&lt;br /&gt;
heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of art, of history, of&lt;br /&gt;
religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses of strange aspects;&lt;br /&gt;
and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, he was not altogether&lt;br /&gt;
sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On abandoning his&lt;br /&gt;
grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed&lt;br /&gt;
himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to&lt;br /&gt;
avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle at which he saw everything&lt;br /&gt;
began to be displaced anew. A certain oscillation set all the horizons of&lt;br /&gt;
his brains in motion. An odd internal upsetting. He almost suffered from&lt;br /&gt;
it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
It seemed as though there were no &amp;quot;consecrated things&amp;quot; for those young&lt;br /&gt;
men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which&lt;br /&gt;
embarrassed his still timid mind.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy&lt;br /&gt;
from the ancient repertory called classic: &amp;quot;Down with tragedy dear to the&lt;br /&gt;
bourgeois!&amp;quot; cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:&amp;amp;mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the&lt;br /&gt;
bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has a&lt;br /&gt;
reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of&lt;br /&gt;
AEschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in&lt;br /&gt;
nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not a&lt;br /&gt;
beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which are&lt;br /&gt;
not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is the&lt;br /&gt;
duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do not see why&lt;br /&gt;
classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique tragedy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau&lt;br /&gt;
between Enjolras and Courfeyrac.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Courfeyrac took his arm:&amp;amp;mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Pay attention. This is the Rue Platriere, now called Rue Jean-Jacques&lt;br /&gt;
Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty years&lt;br /&gt;
ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Therese. From time to time, little&lt;br /&gt;
beings were born there. Therese gave birth to them, Jean-Jacques&lt;br /&gt;
represented them as foundlings.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:&amp;amp;mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied his&lt;br /&gt;
own children, that may be; but he adopted the people.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. Jean&lt;br /&gt;
Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said &amp;quot;Bonaparte.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Enjolras pronounced it &amp;quot;Buonaparte.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Marius was vaguely surprised. Initium sapientiae.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Translation notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Textual notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Citations==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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