Comments on: Enjoy Les Misérables. But please get the history straight.

By: K

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:35:37 +0000

I believe the revolution in the movie is the June Rebellion, not the French Revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Rebellion

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 04 May 2013 01:54:58 +0000

Now I ❤ the musical and the movie! But I have to say it is nice to have that little history lesson.

By: Martina Gonzalez Faber

Martina Gonzalez Faber — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:28:48 +0000

Thankyou for this history, it is something useful people can use.

By: Cynthia Haven

Cynthia Haven — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:41:28 +0000

I can’t even remember now, but it’s hardly a secret. Mostly I was looking for the route of the failed revolution to check out while I was in Paris, and uncovered this history. If you Google no doubt you can find lots.

By: Joe Spieldenner

Joe Spieldenner — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:27:05 +0000

Where did you find the reference to Saint-Merri?? I visited, last week, and asked about the rebellion and they said they had no idea it was the site of any such thing…

By: dan keefe

dan keefe — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:50:09 +0000

The revolutionaries didn’t win so much as the bourgeoisie in the French Revolution. The latter compromised with the authorities to keep out the very just claims of egalite. The bourgeoisie used the situation in order to leverage their own position,and ,thus,sold the people out! And, just because the insurgents lost in 1832 doesn’t mean that they were naive,nor wrongheaded. The effects of having little or no work,no bread, and suffering the greatest from the cholera outbreak, may have made it seem more *imperative* to them than to their so-called” betters*!!

“If nothing else, please remember is that the whole point of the French Revolution is that the revolutionaries won. Remember the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Robespierre et al.? This was different. In 1832, writes Traugott, “The last guns were silenced a barely twenty-four hours after hostilities had begun.–Cynthia Haven “

By: Daniel Ritchie

Daniel Ritchie — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:40:26 +0000

Thanks very much

By: Cynthia Haven

Cynthia Haven — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:37:21 +0000

The book opens in Digne, in Provence, in 1815.

By: Daniel Ritchie

Daniel Ritchie — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:26:43 +0000

Just one question. In the novel (forget the movie), when would you say the first scene takes place? My guess is about 1795.

By: Harith

Harith — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:09:31 +0000

Thank you for your priceless information. i was mixed up also about the French revolution and Les Misérables, i thought it was in the same period as the movie showed.