Les Mis

Les Mis

The 'Prince of Equality'

Louis Philippe II

influenced

Victor Hugo's production

of Les Miserable

 

 "At The End of The Day", Les Miserables

 

 

Louis Philippe II

13 April 1747, – 6 November 1793

 

 

Victor Hugo

26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885

http://www.victorhugo.gg/victor-hugo/

 

 

 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves
Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as
an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
When they are over we realize this:
that the human race has been roughly handled,
but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo

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Les Miserables
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1987/2/87.02.10.x.html

Although Victor Marie Hugo�s Les Mis�rables is now considered a scholarly classic, it began as a popular romance novel. When it first appeared in 1862, long lines outside bookstores in France and Belgium heralded the public success of this epic novel in four volumes, a novel that brought its author unrivaled renown. In September 1862 he was honored at a banquet, the first of its kind, at which over over 2,000 authors, scientists, and statesmen praised him and his work. The novel was published in over forty countries in its first ten years and became the subject of six stage and film productions, most recently the Tony Award-winning musical.

 

Official Les Mis website
http://www.lesmis.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(musical)
Les Misérables ( /leɪ ˈmɪzərɑːb/ or /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: ​[le mizeˈʁablə]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /leɪ ˈmɪz/, is a sung-through musical play based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a burly French peasant of abnormal strength and potentially violent nature, and his never ending quest for redemption after serving 20 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for starving relatives. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly Bishop inspires him to, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters he becomes entangled with get swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
The musical adaptation was originally conceived and produced in France, before its English language adaptation, which opened at the Barbican Centre in London, England, on 8 October 1985, where the production overcame bad notices through word of mouth, launching the beginning of what has turned out to be a global sensation.