Twenty-six.
Jean Valjean was sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving children. He was sentenced to five years of hard labor for this crime.
Valjean was born in 1924.
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Jean Valjean was created in 1862.
Jean Valjean is released from prison in 1815.
He doesn't escape, He is sent to the galleys for stealing bread, which earns him 5 years. He tries a couple of times to run away earning him a total of 19 years, which he serves fully earning him his yellow passport.
Paul Valjean was born on March 31, 1935.
The boy Jean Valjean stole money from was named Petit Gervais. He was a young orphan boy who showed kindness to Valjean by giving him a coin, but Valjean, in his desperate state, stole it from him.
Valjean just loses the will to live.
He dies of old age. He has lived an extremely long life, taking care of his own family, then spending 19 years in prison, then spending a long time recreating himself in Montreuil-sur-Mer, then raising Cosette. In the book, at Marius's and Cosette's wedding, Valjean finally comes clean about his past. Marius is horrified and steers Cosette away from Valjean. When this occurs, Valjean loses the will to live and takes to his bed. It is only when Marius discovers that Valjean saved his life that he realizes that Valjean is truly a great man. Marius and Cosette rush to Valjean's bedside only to find him weak and dying. When he does die, Fantine and Eponine take him away to heaven as angels. So the ending is uplifting because he has led a full, honorable life.
Thenardier offers Valjean the rope as a manipulative tactic to exploit Valjean's generosity and desperation. By presenting the rope, he intends to extract money from Valjean under the pretense of helping him while revealing his own unscrupulous nature. This moment highlights Thenardier's opportunistic character and contrasts with Valjean's moral integrity, showcasing the themes of exploitation and redemption in "Les Misérables."
The people in the quarter refer to Jean Valjean as "Monsieur Madeleine."