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		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables, Volume 3: Marius, Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars,Chapter 2: Lux Facta Est&lt;br /&gt; ((Tome 3: Marius, Livre sixi&amp;egrave;me: La conjonction de deux...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;Les Misérables, Volume 3: Marius, Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars,Chapter 2: Lux Facta Est&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; ((Tome 3: Marius, Livre sixième: La conjonction de deux...&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 Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars,Chapter 2: Lux Facta Est&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
((Tome 3: Marius, Livre sixi&amp;amp;egrave;me: La conjonction de deux &amp;amp;eacute;toiles, Chapitre 2: Lux facta est)&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;
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La seconde ann&amp;amp;eacute;e, pr&amp;amp;eacute;cis&amp;amp;eacute;ment au point de cette histoire o&amp;amp;ugrave; le lecteur&lt;br /&gt;
est parvenu, il arriva que cette habitude du Luxembourg s'interrompit,&lt;br /&gt;
sans que Marius s&amp;amp;ucirc;t trop pourquoi lui-m&amp;amp;ecirc;me, et qu'il fut pr&amp;amp;egrave;s de six&lt;br /&gt;
mois sans mettre les pieds dans son all&amp;amp;eacute;e. Un jour enfin il y retourna.&lt;br /&gt;
C'&amp;amp;eacute;tait par une sereine matin&amp;amp;eacute;e d'&amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute;, Marius &amp;amp;eacute;tait joyeux comme on&lt;br /&gt;
l'est quand il fait beau. Il lui semblait qu'il avait dans le c&amp;amp;oelig;ur tous&lt;br /&gt;
les chants d'oiseaux qu'il entendait et tous les morceaux du ciel bleu&lt;br /&gt;
qu'il voyait &amp;amp;agrave; travers les feuilles des arbres.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Il alla droit &amp;amp;agrave; &amp;amp;laquo;son all&amp;amp;eacute;e&amp;amp;raquo;, et, quand il fut au bout, il aper&amp;amp;ccedil;ut,&lt;br /&gt;
toujours sur le m&amp;amp;ecirc;me banc, ce couple connu. Seulement, quand il&lt;br /&gt;
approcha, c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait bien le m&amp;amp;ecirc;me homme; mais il lui parut que ce n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait&lt;br /&gt;
plus la m&amp;amp;ecirc;me fille. La personne qu'il voyait maintenant &amp;amp;eacute;tait une grande&lt;br /&gt;
et belle cr&amp;amp;eacute;ature ayant toutes les formes les plus charmantes de la&lt;br /&gt;
femme &amp;amp;agrave; ce moment pr&amp;amp;eacute;cis o&amp;amp;ugrave; elles se combinent encore avec toutes les&lt;br /&gt;
gr&amp;amp;acirc;ces les plus na&amp;amp;iuml;ves de l'enfant; moment fugitif et pur que peuvent&lt;br /&gt;
seuls traduire ces deux mots: quinze ans. C'&amp;amp;eacute;taient d'admirables cheveux&lt;br /&gt;
ch&amp;amp;acirc;tains nuanc&amp;amp;eacute;s de veines dor&amp;amp;eacute;es, un front qui semblait fait de marbre,&lt;br /&gt;
des joues qui semblaient faites d'une feuille de rose, un incarnat p&amp;amp;acirc;le,&lt;br /&gt;
une blancheur &amp;amp;eacute;mue, une bouche exquise d'o&amp;amp;ugrave; le sourire sortait comme une&lt;br /&gt;
clart&amp;amp;eacute; et la parole comme une musique, une t&amp;amp;ecirc;te que Rapha&amp;amp;euml;l e&amp;amp;ucirc;t donn&amp;amp;eacute;e &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
Marie pos&amp;amp;eacute;e sur un cou que Jean Goujon e&amp;amp;ucirc;t donn&amp;amp;eacute; &amp;amp;agrave; V&amp;amp;eacute;nus. Et, afin que&lt;br /&gt;
rien ne manqu&amp;amp;acirc;t &amp;amp;agrave; cette ravissante figure, le nez n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait pas beau, il&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;eacute;tait joli; ni droit ni courb&amp;amp;eacute;, ni italien ni grec; c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait le nez&lt;br /&gt;
parisien; c'est-&amp;amp;agrave;-dire quelque chose de spirituel, de fin, d'irr&amp;amp;eacute;gulier&lt;br /&gt;
et de pur, qui d&amp;amp;eacute;sesp&amp;amp;egrave;re les peintres et qui charme les po&amp;amp;egrave;tes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Quand Marius passa pr&amp;amp;egrave;s d'elle, il ne put voir ses yeux qui &amp;amp;eacute;taient&lt;br /&gt;
constamment baiss&amp;amp;eacute;s. Il ne vit que ses longs cils ch&amp;amp;acirc;tains p&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;tr&amp;amp;eacute;s&lt;br /&gt;
d'ombre et de pudeur.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Cela n'emp&amp;amp;ecirc;chait pas la belle enfant de sourire tout en &amp;amp;eacute;coutant l'homme&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;agrave; cheveux blancs qui lui parlait, et rien n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait ravissant comme ce&lt;br /&gt;
frais sourire avec des yeux baiss&amp;amp;eacute;s.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Dans le premier moment, Marius pensa que c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait une autre fille du m&amp;amp;ecirc;me&lt;br /&gt;
homme, une s&amp;amp;oelig;ur sans doute de la premi&amp;amp;egrave;re. Mais, quand l'invariable&lt;br /&gt;
habitude de la promenade le ramena pour la seconde fois pr&amp;amp;egrave;s du banc, et&lt;br /&gt;
qu'il l'eut examin&amp;amp;eacute;e avec attention, il reconnut que c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait la m&amp;amp;ecirc;me. En&lt;br /&gt;
six mois la petite fille &amp;amp;eacute;tait devenue jeune fille; voil&amp;amp;agrave; tout. Rien&lt;br /&gt;
n'est plus fr&amp;amp;eacute;quent que ce ph&amp;amp;eacute;nom&amp;amp;egrave;ne. Il y a un instant o&amp;amp;ugrave; les filles&lt;br /&gt;
s'&amp;amp;eacute;panouissent en un clin d'&amp;amp;oelig;il et deviennent des roses tout &amp;amp;agrave; coup.&lt;br /&gt;
Hier on les a laiss&amp;amp;eacute;es enfants, aujourd'hui on les retrouve&lt;br /&gt;
inqui&amp;amp;eacute;tantes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Celle-ci n'avait pas seulement grandi, elle s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait id&amp;amp;eacute;alis&amp;amp;eacute;e. Comme&lt;br /&gt;
trois jours en avril suffisent &amp;amp;agrave; de certains arbres pour se couvrir de&lt;br /&gt;
fleurs, six mois lui avaient suffi pour se v&amp;amp;ecirc;tir de beaut&amp;amp;eacute;. Son avril &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
elle &amp;amp;eacute;tait venu.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
On voit quelquefois des gens qui, pauvres et mesquins, semblent se&lt;br /&gt;
r&amp;amp;eacute;veiller, passent subitement de l'indigence au faste, font des d&amp;amp;eacute;penses&lt;br /&gt;
de toutes sortes, et deviennent tout &amp;amp;agrave; coup &amp;amp;eacute;clatants, prodigues et&lt;br /&gt;
magnifiques. Cela tient &amp;amp;agrave; une rente empoch&amp;amp;eacute;e; il y a eu &amp;amp;eacute;ch&amp;amp;eacute;ance hier.&lt;br /&gt;
La jeune fille avait touch&amp;amp;eacute; son semestre.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Et puis ce n'&amp;amp;eacute;tait plus la pensionnaire avec son chapeau de peluche, sa&lt;br /&gt;
robe de m&amp;amp;eacute;rinos, ses souliers d'&amp;amp;eacute;colier et ses mains rouges; le go&amp;amp;ucirc;t&lt;br /&gt;
lui &amp;amp;eacute;tait venu avec la beaut&amp;amp;eacute;; c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait une personne bien mise avec une&lt;br /&gt;
sorte d'&amp;amp;eacute;l&amp;amp;eacute;gance simple et riche et sans mani&amp;amp;egrave;re. Elle avait une robe de&lt;br /&gt;
damas noir, un camail de m&amp;amp;ecirc;me &amp;amp;eacute;toffe et un chapeau de cr&amp;amp;ecirc;pe blanc. Ses&lt;br /&gt;
gants blancs montraient la finesse de sa main qui jouait avec le manche&lt;br /&gt;
d'une ombrelle en ivoire chinois, et son brodequin de soie dessinait la&lt;br /&gt;
petitesse de son pied. Quand on passait pr&amp;amp;egrave;s d'elle, toute sa toilette&lt;br /&gt;
exhalait un parfum jeune et p&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;trant.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Quant &amp;amp;agrave; l'homme, il &amp;amp;eacute;tait toujours le m&amp;amp;ecirc;me.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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La seconde fois que Marius arriva pr&amp;amp;egrave;s d'elle, la jeune fille leva les&lt;br /&gt;
paupi&amp;amp;egrave;res. Ses yeux &amp;amp;eacute;taient d'un bleu c&amp;amp;eacute;leste et profond, mais dans cet&lt;br /&gt;
azur voil&amp;amp;eacute; il n'y avait encore que le regard d'un enfant. Elle regarda&lt;br /&gt;
Marius avec indiff&amp;amp;eacute;rence, comme elle e&amp;amp;ucirc;t regard&amp;amp;eacute; le marmot qui courait&lt;br /&gt;
sous les sycomores, ou le vase de marbre qui faisait de l'ombre sur le&lt;br /&gt;
banc; et Marius de son c&amp;amp;ocirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; continua sa promenade en pensant &amp;amp;agrave; autre&lt;br /&gt;
chose.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Il passa encore quatre ou cinq fois pr&amp;amp;egrave;s du banc o&amp;amp;ugrave; &amp;amp;eacute;tait la jeune&lt;br /&gt;
fille, mais sans m&amp;amp;ecirc;me tourner les yeux vers elle.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
Les jours suivants, il revint comme &amp;amp;agrave; l'ordinaire au Luxembourg, comme &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
l'ordinaire, il y trouva &amp;amp;laquo;le p&amp;amp;egrave;re et la fille&amp;amp;raquo;, mais il n'y fit plus&lt;br /&gt;
attention. Il ne songea pas plus &amp;amp;agrave; cette fille quand elle fut belle&lt;br /&gt;
qu'il n'y songeait lorsqu'elle &amp;amp;eacute;tait laide. Il passait fort pr&amp;amp;egrave;s du banc&lt;br /&gt;
o&amp;amp;ugrave; elle &amp;amp;eacute;tait, parce que c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait son habitude.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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==English text==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the&lt;br /&gt;
reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was&lt;br /&gt;
interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly six&lt;br /&gt;
months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One day, at&lt;br /&gt;
last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer morning, and&lt;br /&gt;
Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is fine. It seemed&lt;br /&gt;
to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the birds that he was&lt;br /&gt;
listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he caught glimpses&lt;br /&gt;
through the leaves of the trees.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
He went straight to &amp;quot;his alley,&amp;quot; and when he reached the end of it he&lt;br /&gt;
perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when he&lt;br /&gt;
approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that it&lt;br /&gt;
was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall and&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a woman at&lt;br /&gt;
the precise moment when they are still combined with all the most&lt;br /&gt;
ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which can be&lt;br /&gt;
expressed only by these two words,&amp;amp;mdash;&amp;quot;fifteen years.&amp;quot; She had&lt;br /&gt;
wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed made&lt;br /&gt;
of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, an agitated&lt;br /&gt;
whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like sunbeams, and&lt;br /&gt;
words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given to Mary, set&lt;br /&gt;
upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a Venus. And, in&lt;br /&gt;
order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching face, her nose was&lt;br /&gt;
not handsome&amp;amp;mdash;it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither&lt;br /&gt;
Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual,&lt;br /&gt;
delicate, irregular, pure,&amp;amp;mdash;which drives painters to despair, and&lt;br /&gt;
charms poets.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were&lt;br /&gt;
constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with&lt;br /&gt;
shadow and modesty.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened to&lt;br /&gt;
what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could be more&lt;br /&gt;
fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same&lt;br /&gt;
man, a sister of the former, no doubt. But when the invariable habit of&lt;br /&gt;
his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had&lt;br /&gt;
examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months the&lt;br /&gt;
little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more&lt;br /&gt;
frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out in&lt;br /&gt;
the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left them&lt;br /&gt;
children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the feelings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days in&lt;br /&gt;
April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed&lt;br /&gt;
to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass&lt;br /&gt;
suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts,&lt;br /&gt;
and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is the&lt;br /&gt;
result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The young&lt;br /&gt;
girl had received her quarterly income.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her merino&lt;br /&gt;
gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her with&lt;br /&gt;
beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich and simple&lt;br /&gt;
elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black damask, a&lt;br /&gt;
cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her white gloves&lt;br /&gt;
displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the carved, Chinese&lt;br /&gt;
ivory handle of a parasol, and her silken shoe outlined the smallness of&lt;br /&gt;
her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette exhaled a youthful&lt;br /&gt;
and penetrating perfume.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
As for the man, he was the same as usual.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The second time that Marius approached her, the young girl raised her&lt;br /&gt;
eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled&lt;br /&gt;
azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked at&lt;br /&gt;
Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running beneath&lt;br /&gt;
the sycamores, or the marble vase which cast a shadow on the bench, and&lt;br /&gt;
Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought about something&lt;br /&gt;
else.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, but&lt;br /&gt;
without even turning his eyes in her direction.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; as&lt;br /&gt;
usual, he found there &amp;quot;the father and daughter;&amp;quot; but he paid no further&lt;br /&gt;
attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that she was&lt;br /&gt;
beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near the bench&lt;br /&gt;
where she sat, because such was his habit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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==Translation notes==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Textual notes==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Citations==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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