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What they were doing when they died at the barricade

(taken from the unabridged version of Les Miserable, translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee)

Bahorel: attacking a guard with a carbine
Jehan: a prisoner, crying, “Vive le France! Long live the future!”
Eponine: trying to smile at Marius after admitting she had been “a little bit in love” with him
Gavroche: singing, even as he was shot
Bossuet, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, and Joly: merely said to have been “killed”
Combeferre: lifting a wounded soldier, looking towards the sky
Enjolras: smiling, taking Grantaire’s hand
Grantaire: standing at Enjolras’ side, hand in hand

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