There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution. Valjean is also known in the novel as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre. The Revolution came events succeeded each other with precipitation the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. The story depicts the character's struggle to lead a normal life and redeem himself after serving a 19-year-long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's starving children and attempting to escape from prison. He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D- He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D- since 1806.Īlthough this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese.
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