Word: valjean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rolane in the part of the child Cosette (you would swear that the youthful actress couldn't be more than ten years old) few of the cast could be called exceptional. On the other hand the general standard is high, and the performances of M. Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean, of M. Jean Goulont as Jawert, and of M. Saillard as Thenardier are thoroughly, convineing...
...displeasure of Napoleon, Victor Hugo wrote his great novel venting protest against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small...
...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...
...save an innocent life . . . just as I should uphold a starving man who stole food to keep himself alive." Commentators listed in the Bishop's support Victor Hugo, whose nun in Les Miserable-; told with the author's approval her first lie, for hounded Jean Valjean. Otherside supporters recalled famed Presbyterian evangelist Robert Elliott Speer's sermon The Margin of Safety, in which, admitting that the dividing line between Evil and Good is often hard to determine, he held that therefore good Christians would keep well on the side of good...
Jean Hateau, citizen of Metz, is reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...