The other night, instead of doing any of the 24601 things I was meant to be doing, I made this instead. Not to be used as a substitute for reading the book! Unless of course you want it to be.
Tumblr is a dick and probably won’t let you see the actually readable version, so click here to see it. Please feel free to point out any massive inaccuracies but be gentle
Sitting in a cafe near the Jardin du Luxembourg reviewing the suicide scene, I noticed that Javert committed suicide between two bridges: the Pont Notre Dame and the Pont au Change. I looked these sites up on the map and was stunned to realize Javert is standing literally in between the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Palais de Justice: the symbol of Grace and the symbol of the Law. Not only were these buildings in his line of site, he is standing smack in the middle of them. Grace on his left, Law on his right. Looking up from the Seine River, Javert would have confronted visually the very conflict that was raging in his mind. Does he follow Grace or does he follow the Law? Caught between the two and unable to reconcile them, he casts himself into the Seine.
This blog entry gives Google Maps locations for many of the important locations in Les Miserables and then this happened and help I can’t (via comfortableandkind)
