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Second part.

A mind in turmoil.

"Ex-convict... usurper of public office...

...hard-labour for life."

"Am I going to sacrifice myself for that robber Champmathieu?"

"What shall I do?"

"Do I have the right to undo what Providence has done for me?"

"Let it be!"

"What about Fantine? And Cosette?"

"And my factory, which supports so many people's lives?

"Too bad for Champmathieu! The life of one against..."

So he slept..

At daybreak.

"If she wants to see someone, we'll have to hurry."

"Where is the Mayor? He hasn't come today".

Meanwhile, in the criminal court...

"I recognise the accused. His name is Jean Valjean."

"I saw him often when I was an officer at Toulon prison."

Is that all, Your Honour?

"Maybe the mayor was wrong, not coming to see me today."

"The mayor has left...".

"He's gone to look for Cosette."

At 8pm, Madeleine comes into the hearing in his capacity as mayor.

A hideous look at the past.

"To tell the truth I didn't steal anything."

"I found a cut branch with 2 apples on it."

"I didn't steal them."

"This man is ex-convict Jean Valjean."

"He is a recidivist thief."

"I demand hard labour for life.".

Because of the stubborn denials of the accused...

the court had requested 2 old fellow inmates of his.

Two had already recognised him.

Inmate Brevet.

"I formally identify Jean Valjean."

Chenildieu... nickname "I deny God".

"God, do I recognise him?! "We were chained together for 5 years!"

"That's Jean Valjean."

"He was called 'Jean-the-Jack,' he was so strong."

Famous!

"Brevet, Chenildieu, Cochepaille, look here!"

"Don't you recognise me?"

"I am Jean Valjean!"

"I'm not crazy. I'm an ex-convict."

"Robber of the Bishop and Little Gervais."

"I'm rich now, a mayor... I wanted to be amongst honest people."

"I recognise you, Brevet. You wore check suspenders."

"Chenildieu, you have a big burn scar on your shoulder."

"You, Cochepaille, you have tattooed on your left arm...

...the date of the emperor's landing at Cannes, March 1, 1815."

"You can see that I must be Jean Valjean."

"If no one is going to arrest me, I have much to do. I'm leaving."

"Do you think I should be pitied?"

"When I think what I was about to do, I should be envied!"

Next morning.

"With that little mirror you can see if a sick person is no longer breathing...

...and so is dead."

"How's Cosette?"

"Oh, bring her to me!"

"Her voice..."

"Shortly... Now you're too agitated. Calm down... I will bring her."

It was some other child, not Cosette...

OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR Inspector Javert will arrest the man called Madeleine who claimed

in the hearing today to be the ex-convict Jean Valjean.

"Come along, right now!"

"Give me three days to find her child.".

"Mr Mayor!"

"He's not the mayor. He's Jean Valjean, a thief and convict."

"He's the one I've been after, and that's a fact!"

"You've killed that woman!"

"I advise you to leave me be right now!"

That same evening...

"I beg the priest to look after everything I'm leaving here."

"It should pay for the cost of my trial, and to bury the woman who died today."

"The rest can be for the poor."

Javert's personal ethos called for unqualified respect for authority.

But his veneration for Sister Simplice, who had never lied, was exceptional.

"Sister, are you alone?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry, but it's my duty to insist. We are looking for the Jean Valjean."

"He's escaped. Have you seen him?"

"Sorry!"

"Oh sainted maid, may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise!"

For a time, all trace of Jean Valjean was lost.

It was known that he'd visited his banker, Lafitte, in Paris...

and withdrawn all his money... 650,000 francs.

At this time, there was an eccentric old man in Paris...

a wealthy member of the gentry, Mr Luc Esprit Gillenormand.

(Henri Maillard)

Crazy, but charming, an aspiring centennial, 80 years old.

"Father, our ex-chamber maid Magnon, is here with a pair of twins of yours."

"So, my girl, are you here to astonish?"

"Didn't the Duke of Angouleme, the bastard son of Charles IX..."

"marry a silly 15-year old girl when he was 96?"

"However, I declare that these two young gentlemen are not mine."

"But they must be taken care of. I shall pay!"

The legitimate grandson.

"It's a pity this lovely boy's the son of a soldier of that scoundrel Bonaparte!"

Indeed, little Marius he was the son of a colonel of the Empire...

who was severely wounded at Waterloo.

One night in December, at the Thenardiers' inn.

Mrs Thenardier's two daughters... Eponine...

...and Azelma.

This was Cosette. (Andree Rolane)

There was also, elsewhere of the house, another child.

She was Mrs Thernadier's little boy, but she was not his actual mother.

"No one has watered my horse!"

"Oh, yes Sir, he's had a bucketful..."

"I took it myself and talked to him."

"Hey, you... you little bitch!"

"Hey, you little brat, get a large loaf, as well."

The spring was bordering on the forest, in the darkness.

She looked to neither left nor right...

for fear of seeing something in the branches or undergrowth.

The girl recoils in horror from the image of Mrs Thenardier.

Some things would open the eyes of the dead in their grave!

"My God! My God!"

"So you don't have any mother?"

"I don't think so. Others do. But I don't.".

"I don't think I ever had one."

"What's your name?"

"Cosette."

"Give me the bucket. Mrs Thenardier will beat me."

"Been having fun, you brat?"

"I'd like a room."

"It'll be 40 sous, mister."

"Where's the bread?"

"The bakery was closed, Ma'am."

"Give me the money."

"She makes stockings for my daughters. She has to work, before she can eat!"

"Let her play!"

"Play!"

She's a poor little wretch I raised out of charity..."

"Her mother must have died."

"My mother is dead!"

"Oh, the wretch! With those filthy hands!"

"This is for you!"

"Well I never! That tramp is a millionaire!"

"I'll call her Catherine."

"So play, Cosette!"

"Oh, I am playing!"

Hope is a beautiful thing in a child who has only ever known despair.

At dawn..

"A gold louis!"

As she was the first in the district to get up, she was called "Lark".

However this lark never sang.

Total 23 francs.

"Yesterday I was told 40 sous!"

"We have so many expenses... And that Cosette, who has to be fed."

"What if she was taken off your hands?"

"It's just that I adore the little girl. She's been here since she was tiny."

"I need to hear her chattering."

"It would be 500 francs!"

"Fetch Cosette."

"My child, take this and go and get dressed."

"What is it?"

"I'm taking her back. I don't have the right to give her to you."

Mr Thenardier, Give Cosette to this person.

He'll pay any expenses.

Yours faithfully, Fantine.

A gloomy refuge in Paris... Gorbeau's dilapidated house.

The following morning.

"A weary soul in one so young."

There was a woman in the house known as the main tenant...

who lived alone in that dismal abode.

"Yes, madame, that's it."

Oh my God! My broom!

"Do I need to sweep?"?

"Play!"

"It's so pretty here!"

Their life.

And he used to tell her about her mother.

Absences

Curiosity.

Gossip.

The arrest of Madeleine had promoted Javert to París.

"Mrs Thenardier!"

"If he goes down the dead-end alley, he' done for!"

At the moment when the clatter of the fiends was passing away...

there was a heavenly sound, a dazzling of harmonies, a choir of angels...

You'll get 100 francs if you give me a refuge for tonight.

"Hey, it's you, Madeleine!"

"I'm Fauchelevant."

"After the accident it was you who got me the job as gardener in the cloister."

"There are only women cloistered here."

"The bell is to warn them when I pass."

Fauchelevent had introduced Jean Valjean as his brother, Ultime Fauchelevant.

The convent accepted Ultime as assistant- gardener and Cosette as a boarder.

End of the second part.