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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo

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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 135 *** LES MISÉRABLES By Victor Hugo Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York Copyright 1887 Contents LES MISÉRABLES PREFACE VOLUME I-FANTINE BOOK FIRST-A JUST MAN CHAPTER I-M. MYRIEL CHAPTER II-M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME CHAPTER III-A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP CHAPTER IV-WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS CHAPTER V-MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG CHAPTER VI-WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM CHAPTER VII-CRAVATTE CHAPTER VIII-PHI

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