There isn't quite an analog to that in Les Mizz if only because it's a very distinct ecosystem. It's this place where the impoverished and the disenfranchised end up you know it boils over into revolution as France went through last week. There are some commonalities but that's not the crux of what Hugo is up to anyway. I have individual memories of my dad trying to talk to me about this stuff like there's one really early when he was 11 or 12 maybe.
We're dipping back in the Victor Hugo well this week with his other best-known book The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Did you know that the book and the Disney movie don't end the same way?
Also on tap: road trips, games of tag, revisiting the poverty question from last week, and talking about Hugo's views on architecture vs. the printing press.
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