Victor Hugo's La Miserable

Victor hugo is keen to impress upon us that his france, the france of his novel, is all of the world. It's a microcosm for all the world, as is paris. And the insurrection that he details not the biggest of the century. If you were to ask a french person to name the biggest insurrection of the nine tenth century, they wouldn't say the one that takes centre stage in victor hugo's novel. He says that this insurrection, street battle, rebellion, whatever you might want to call it,. Is an embryo for all future insurrections.