Ages of caracters from Les Miserables?

Answer 1

Here is one translation of Fantine's death:

Fantine began to shake.

"My child!" she yelled, "Go and get my child! So she's not here! Sister, answer me, where is Cosette? I want my little girl! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire"

Javert stamped his foot.

"There goes the other one now! Shut up, you slut! What a godforsaken place, where the galley-slaves are magistrates and tarts are looked after like little countesses! Well, all that's going to change now, and high time, too!"

He glared at Fantine and added, grabbing a fistful of Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt, and collar: "I'm telling you there is no Monsieur Madeleine and there is no Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, there is a crook, there is a convict named Jean Valjean! He's the one I've got hold of! So that's what there is!"

Fantine sat bolt upright, leaning on both hands with her arms stiff, she looked at Jean Valjean, she looked at Javert, she looked at the nun, she opened her mouth to speak, a rattle came out from deep in her chest, her teeth began to chatter, she stretched her arms in anguish, convulsively opening her hands and groping all around her like someone drowning; then she suddenly sank back on her pillow. Her head hit the headboard and fell forward on her chest, with her mouth gaping, her eyes open and glazed.

She was dead.

Fantine has had to give up her child to get a job, from which she is fired and forced to sell her own body, until Jean Valjean finds her. Valjean, an ex-convict, is also called Monsieur Madeleine and he has changed his ways to become the beloved Mayor of Montreuil-sur-mer. Valjean promises to bring Fantine her child, Cosette, but fails to do so. Javert, a policeman, arrests Valjean in the hospital right by Fantine's bed.

In the musical Les Mis this scene is called The Confrontation.

Answer 2

Jean Valjean is in his 50s at the beginning of the story and around 70 by the end. Cosette is a child when she first appears and is a young woman by the end. Marius is a young man in his 20s. Javert is likely in his 40s or 50s.

Answer 3

Cosette is seven when Fantine dies, and as Fantine was a young, naive orphan, seduced by a rich student, was most likely somewhere between 16-18 when she gave birth. This puts the character in the 22-25 range, most likely. Cosette is 15 when she first meets Marius. This is based on the information provided in the book.

Answer 4

Jean Valjean= Old man, probably a young senior citizen

Javert= Late Middle ages

Enjolras, Marius, Cosette, Eponine, and the other student revolutionaries= around college-aged

Fantine= dead, but she was early middle aged

Thernardiers= Middle Aged, Monsieur Thernardier is older than Madame Thernardier

Answer 5

Due to the severe conditions she lived under when she was forced into prostitution, she contracted tuberculosis, which in the ages before antibiotics commonly resulted in death if theafflictedwere physically weakened and/or unable to get to a climate where they might rest and recuperate. The worse the initial health of the victim, the faster deathoccurred.