I. FEBRUARY 16, 1833 II. JEAN VALJEAN STILL HAS HIS ARM IN A SLING III. THE INSEPARABLE IV. IMMORTALE JECUR BOOK VII. THE LAST DROP IN THE BITTER CUP. I. THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN II. THE OBSCURITY WHICH A REVELATION MAY CONTAIN BOOK VIII. TWILIGHT DECLINES. I. THE GROUND-FLOOR ROOM II. OTHER BACKWARD STEPS III. THEY REMEMBER THE GARDEN IN THE RUE PLUMET IV. ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION BOOK IX. SUPREME DARKNESS, SUPREME DAWN. I. PITY THE UNHAPPY, BUT BE INDULGENT TO THE HAPPY II. THE LAST FLUTTERINGS OF THE LAMP WITHOUT OIL III. A PEN IS TOO HEAVY FOR THE MAN WHO LIFTED FAUCHELEVENT'S CART IV. A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY WHITENS V. A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH IS DAY VI. THE GRASS HIDES, AND THE RAIN EFFACES ILLUSTRATIONS. THE DEATH OF JEAN VALJEAN Vol. V. Frontispiece Drawn by G. Jeanniot. THE DEATH OF GAVROCHE Drawn by G. Jeanniot. JEAN VALJEAN. BOOK I. THE WAR WITHIN FOUR WALLS. CHAPTER I. THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG ST. ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE. The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social diseases can mention do not belong to the period in which the action of this book is laid. These two barricades, both symbols under different aspects of a formidable situation, emerged from the earth during the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest street-war which history has seen. It happens sometimes that the canaille, that great despairing crowd, contrary to principles, even contrary to liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, the government of all by all, protests, in the depths of its agony, its discouragement, its destitution, its fevers, its distresses, its miasmas, its ignorance, and its darkness, and the populace offers battle to the people. The beggars attack the common right, the ochlocracy rises in insurrection against the demos. Those are mournful days; for there is always a certain amount of right even in this mania, there is suicide in this duel, and these words, intended to be insults, such as beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, and populace, prove, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the fault of the disinherited. For our part, we never pronounce these words without grief and respect, for when philosophy probes the facts with which they correspond it often finds much grandeur by the side of misery. Athens was an ochlocracy; the beggars produced Holland; the populace more than once saved Rome; and the canaille followed the Saviour. There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificence below. Saint Jerome doubtless thought of this canaille, of all these poor people, all these