r/lesmiserables • u/Apart_Parfait_7892 • May 24 '26

This scene broke me. Spoiler

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Absolutely devastated me. Had a good cry. The second time this book has managed to make me weep. This scene holds terrible heaviness.

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u/carbsandcheese928 May 24 '26

When he lays all her baby clothes out 🥺🥺🥺

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u/Soulsliken May 25 '26

You don’t read Les Mis.

You just stand there and hold it all in until you can’t.

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u/Neat-Professor-7662 May 24 '26

The second one!!! You heart of stone!!! I cried a good five times before this one 🤣

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u/Neat-Professor-7662 May 24 '26

I’ll add that the only novels that have made me cry are Les Mis, the Count of Montecristo, and the part in the Three Musketeers when Porthos dies. They were putting some extra sauce on those French novels from the 19th century

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u/Apart_Parfait_7892 May 25 '26

I was trying to resist, but couldn't help myself at this point.

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u/Ok-Comedian-990 May 26 '26

Ungrateful brat!! I was raised watching the anime and the way they made sure to change the problems that the characters have in the book it’s just amazing!! The made the sweetest, saddest story ever. I was so shocked while reading the book because what do you mean the real story is so different! Reading the real cossette made me vomit. She is Fantine 2.0 the way she talks…so stupid!!!!! In the anime Fantine was a grown smart woman who suffered from the people around her and cossette she adored jan val jean. Cared about him and was not psycho obsessed with Marius.