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Third part.

At the Restoration, political passions reached their zenith.

They engendered fierce hatred amongst Loyalists and Bonapartists.

France, her cities, even families, were breaking apart.

Mr Guillenormand, a fierce royalist, would not speak to his son-in-law...

Major Pontmercy, Baron of the Empire, wounded at Waterloo.

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

Pontmercy was the widower of a daughter of Guillenormand,

married against the latter's wishes. After the death of his daughter...

the grandfather had imperiously claimed his grandson, Marius...

declaring that otherwise he would be disinherited.

The father, poor on a half-pension, faithful to the Emperor, persecuted by the restoration...

had given up any interest in his son, who grew up...

with pure royalist sentiments and a fanatic belief that Bonaparte and his supporters were bandits

who had devastated Europe

and were the cowards who had fled the battlefield of Waterloo.

In Vernon we find a brave old man from Waterloo...

who, not being able to have his child, had decided to love flowers.

His son Marius had become a handsome young man of twenty. (Francois Rozet)

He grew up without knowing his father.

"Your father is ill and asking for you. Tomorrow you'll go to Vernon."

The only visit from a son to his father.

"Too late!"

"Your father adored you."

"But your grandfather threatened to disinherit you, if you saw each other."

"Just because a man has been a soldier of the Emperor...

doesn't make him a monster."

"That shouldn't be why a father and his son get separated."

For my son. The emperor made me baron in the field at Waterloo

Since the restoration deprives me of this title

that I paid for with my blood, my son will take it.

Needless to say, he will be worthy of it.

In that same battle, a sergeant called Thenardier saved my life.

He had in recent times an inn in Montsermeil.

If my son finds Thenardier, he should do him any service he can.

That hatred brings so much misery!

Marius embraced a posthumous adoration of his father.

For my son. The emperor made me baron in the field at Waterloo

Since the restoration deprives me of this title

that I paid for with my blood, my son will take it.

Needless to say, he will be worthy of it.

"That dreamy look he has... I know it... It's some love affair!"

"Baron of the Empire! What does this mean?"

"That I am my father's son."

"All those people, whether Bonapartists or Republicans, were the wretches!"

"They betrayed their king!"

"You're no more a baron than is my shoe!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"Down with the Bourbons!"

"A baron like you, Sir, and a gentleman like me...

can't live under the same roof."

This grandfather idolised his grandson.

Marius took refuge in Gorbeau's dilapidated house.

He stayed there, living off some Latin translations.

Close by.

They called themselves Gondrette, but in fact they were the Thenardiers.

Eponine. (Nivette Saillard)

and Azelma. (Miss Duray)

"Madame Marchioness, please take pity upon a poor Spanish captain...

victim of loyalty and attachment to the sacred cause of legitimacy.

I remain, Madame, yours faithfully

Don Alvarez

Spanish cavalry captain, Royalist refugee in France,

without the means needed to continue my journey.

To Monsieur Pabourgeot, elector.

I allow myself to beg you to grant me the precious favour of your sympathy

to take an interest in a man of letters whose drama was just rejected

by the Theatre Francais. Genflot, man of letters

Marius's friends... young people full of the ideal.

Enjolras. (Paul Guide)

With these new contacts, Marius felt his spirits rise.

He saw that TRUTH did not only exist in the past and present...

but there was the FLAME and the LIGHT...

to take it into the future.

"Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen." Robespierre

Now, at that time, in the Luxembourg Gardens...

Their regular bench.

Cosette was now 16 years old.

Cosette (Sandra Milowanoff)

She was everything to him in his poor old age.

One day the air was warm ...

The first look from the heart.

The next morning. His only fresh clothes... Old-fashioned.

My dear nice young neighbour, I know you are a good man.

My daughter will tell you the 4 of us are 2 days without a piece of bread.

My sick wife...

"I can read...! Waterloo..."

"And I can write!"!

The coppers are here.

Did you know, Mr Marius, that you're a very handsome boy?

Sometimes when you're hungry...

"Golly! How it shines! This is going to feed us!"

Gavroche. (Charles Badiole)

"Just a sou... We're hungry!"

"How about that face like a cod!"

"Here's a loaf. A loaf of soap!"

"2 sous worth of white bread in 3 pieces."

"He's coming!"

"He's the philanthropist. Put out the fire!"

"Get out of bed, lazybones! Break a window!"

She...

Her! Coming back to this filthy hovel...

"She may be forced to lose her arm."

"If I haven't paid 60 francs tonight, they'll throw us out on the street."

"I don't have enough on me. I'll be back at 6 with it."

"Take a good look at that man!"

"You look sad."

"I wish you had no pain. What can I do?"

"Find their address. I'll reward you."

"I tell you, I recognized him."

"Are you sure? So will that be her? And my daughters go barefoot!"

"If that mysterious old man doesn't pay up, we'll finish him!"

"I'm going to pass out some invitations."

"The Gorbeau house... I know that dump!"

"Stay at home. If feel threatened, shoot in the air."

"But above all, not too soon. We'll be there."

"No one. Neither the concierge nor the neighbour..."

"Just a neighbour. Ignore him!"

"Do you recognise me?"

"Thenardier... Montfermeil."

If my son finds Thenardier, he should do him any service he can.

"I finally find you, child thief, doll-giver..."

"Silly old fool!"

"Don't hurt him!"

"I want 200,000 francs, otherwise..."

"Did you imagine you could force me to do what you want?"

The coppers are here.

"Come through the door... it's safer!"

"There are 7 of you, 15 of us. So let's behave ourselves."

Where is the victim?

"Damn! He must have been the best!"

The next day.

"Get a load of the beauty-queen!"

"That's you, you old bag!"

"Lady, if you don't open the door, I bang on the windows."

"Where's the old man?"

"With the law!"

"Mother?"

"Prison!"

"The sisters?"

"Haven't come home."

"There’s a job to be done... Rue Plumet. A garden gate."

"Will you go and see?"

The servant, Toussaint.

"I've been to Rue Plumet... Nothing doing!"

"The procession"... The chain of convicts transferred to a jail in stages.

"Father, are they still men?"

"Sometimes..."

Not far away, in a field known as "the lark's field".

"Where have you been living, since you moved?"

"You asked me for an address..."

"Rue Plumet... A garden fence."

"You promised me something..."

Every 2 or 3 months, Jean Valjean made a strange visit, far from Paris.

A beautiful night, during one of those absences.

Threats of the night...

In the morning.

Is she still visiting Luxembourg Garden? No, Sir. Where is she going to live?

She didn't say.

How sad not to know where one's soul-mate is!

"And now, what are we going to eat?"

"Rue Plumet. Two women living alone... I assure you."

The following night.

"Don't be afraid!"

"At night, I come here... You sing!"

"Perhaps I'm bothering you?"

"So... do you love me?"

That blessed and holy hour, when a kiss binds souls together.

"Just in case... here's my address..."

"Don't forget it!"

"16, Rue de la Verrerie."

"There's a dog!"

"I told you there's nothing worthwhile here."

"I don’t want to!"

"If you touch that gate I'll scream I'll punch, I'll wake up the street."

"I'll have the lot of you arrested."

"You bitch!"

"What do I care if I'm found tomorrow, stabbed to death by my own father?"

"You want to stop us from working. But we have to earn a living."

"Drop dead!"

"What is your name?"

" Marius... and you?"

His heart is old!

Trying to get used to the idea that he'll die...

without ever seeing the 'gentleman' again.

"Will you receive Mr Marius, Sir?"

"What is it you want with me?"

"Sir, have pity on me!"

"I know I displease you, but I just need to ask one thing..."

"and then I shall be on my way."

"Sir, I come to ask your permission to marry."

"So... you have a profession?"

"Then... is she rich?"

"So, a nondescript girl, with nondescript parents?"

"My father...!"

That word... my father!

"Say that again!"

"Father... grandfather... if you only knew... I love her!"

"Marius, I think it's very good for a man to fall in love."

"I've had some experience of that myself."

"Enjoy yourself! Nothing better!"

"You don't marry her, but that doesn't stop you."

"Silly boy, make her your mistress!"

"Once, you insulted my father. Today you insult the woman in my life."

"I want nothing from you, Sir. Goodbye!"

"What have I done to him? He's mad! Now he's gone! Oh, my God!"

"This time he really won't return."

After three days' absence...

Clear off!

End of the third part.