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tjjamess · 1 month

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Sister Simplice deserves more love

#She’s an icon #sister simplice #les mis #les miserables #les mis fanart #Ignore my illegible handwriting

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ueinra · 4 months

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TRUE LOVEEEE

#les miserables #les mis #jean valjean #bishop myriel #sister simplice #fauchelevent

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landfilloftrash · 3 months

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A little scene from chapter 4 of ‘the wildest hath not such a heart as you’ but what Sister Perpétue saw from a little ways away. Aka; something that might have looked like an attempted assassination.

#my art #fanart for a fic #Les Mis #Les Misérables #Jean Valjean #Javert #valvert #Sister Simplice #the mental image wouldn't leave me alone <3 #rea’s trash

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ruedesfillesducalvaire · 5 months

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@secretmellowblog got me thinking again with their recent post about javert being a terrible liar!!

this made me think about the juxtaposition of javert and sister simplice, two people incapable of telling a lie. both of them end up breaking their lifetime honesty streak one time, and in each case, it's to save valjean.

first we have sister simplice:

Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice’s distinctive trait; it was the accent of her virtue.

(and that's just a short excerpt; hugo continues on in this way for A While, as he is wont to do.)

then, the moment she tells her one and only lie (to javert himself, no less):

This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. “Sister,” said he, “are you alone in this room?” A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though she should faint. The sister raised her eyes and answered:— “Yes.”

she does this, of course, to save valjean from being re-arrested (he is hiding behind the door).

then we have javert:

Javert [...] raised his head with the intrepid serenity of the man who has never lied.

and his one lie:

He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an effort in speaking in this manner: “I will wait for you here.”

again to save valjean! (from being arrested) (by himself)

i don't really have a point, but it's interesting. also makes me even happier they got the chance to team up in my fic (in chapter 4); they seem like they would get each other...

#idk if anyone has made this point already recently but i haven't seen a post about it so i'll go ahead in case others find it interesting #sister simplice #javert #lm 5.3.11 #les mis letters #analysis #the brick #the brick quotes #sylvie's own nonsense #les mis #les miserables #les misérables

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lesmisscraper · 2 months

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The First Description of Sister Simplice. Volume 1, Book 7, Chapter 1.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

#Les miserables #les mis #My Post #Sister Simplice #The One Who Never Lies #The Brick #Il cuore di Cosette #Les Mis Letters

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the-wraxall-illustrations · 23 days

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#my posts #les mis #les miserables #victor hugo #lascelles wraxall #wraxall translation #lynd ward #lm 1.7.1 #sister simplice

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pureanonofficial · 1 year

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - A Suitable Tomb, LM 1.8.5 (Les Miserables 1925)

This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence.

“Sister,” said he, “are you alone in this room?”

A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though she should faint.

The sister raised her eyes and answered:—

“Yes.”

“Then,” resumed Javert, “you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; you have not seen a certain person—a man—this evening? He has escaped; we are in search of him—that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?”

The sister replied:—

“No.”

She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself.

“Pardon me,” said Javert, and he retired with a deep bow.

O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise!

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wiverly · 9 months

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I just finished watching “Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette” and I didn't expect it but it's literally a fanfiction. I love it, 10/10. 👌🏻

Spoilers below.

Gavroche is saved and is adopted by Jean Valjean and Toussaint together with two other adorable street children and a giant dog.

Marius is a badass who carries on the wishes of Les Amis de l'ABC by becoming a lawyer who helps the poor and needy. Besides, he never repudiates his father-in-law.

Cosette, on the other hand, carries on her father's will to do good to others and is also a very tough one who takes to the streets during the revolt to go and look for Jean and Marius, saving Gavroche's life.

At the wedding of Cosette and Marius there are all the people they have met during their lives who have helped or have helped them and it is wonderful to see how much good everyone has done.

JAVERT DOES NOT KILL HIMSELF BUT IN FACT, he decides to redeem himself and dedicate his life to perpetrating a more charitable justice considering Jean the angel who saved him and who gave him a second chance. Furthermore, when Thénardier shows up at the family home to harm them, he intervenes to arrest him, with the help of Marius, and reveals the truth about the good man that Jean is. He also shows up at his funeral. I cry.

Thénardier finally pays for his crimes and is arrested in a scene that is fantastic. Azelma doesn't go away with him but with her mother, who is alive, and they decide to change their lives and no longer be criminals, reopening the inn.

Furthermore, even if Jean unfortunately dies there, the citizens of Montreuil-sur-Mer still consider him their mayor and await his return, and the city does not fall into ruin thanks to Alain and Sister Simplice.

Alain. Only Alain, because just saying his name is enough.

Ah, Fantine's ghost watches over them the whole time.

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dolphin1812 · 1 year

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I think it’s interesting that Sister Simplice’s honesty permits her to transcend age (no one can tell how old she is) and gender (”a person - we dare not say a woman”) when honesty’s importance is so mixed in the novel as a whole and in this section in particular. Of course, many instances of lying in this book are obviously harmful. We’ve just seen how the Thénardiers lie to Fantine in their letters to try to get as much money as possible out of her while separating her from Cosette. However, we’ve also seen the consequences of a focus on honesty above all else. Madeleine’s factory only requires “honesty” from the workers, but that demand is what got Fantine fired. Fantine may not have been hired at all if she’d told the truth about having a child outside of marriage, and then she wouldn’t have ever experienced the financial stability she had while working at the factory. Similarly, Jean Valjean relies on lies to stay safe. In theory, it’d be wonderful if he could tell the truth of his life, but false identities are what keep him out of prison.

I don’t want to imply that Sister Simplice’s honesty is a form of privilege. Hugo specifies that her name comes from a martyr who chose to die rather than lie, suggesting that she too would tell the truth even if it cost her her life. I think it’s instead a sign that there are multiple ways to be “good” and that they all have their flaws. We saw this with the bishop as well. His commitment to charity and compassion undoubtedly makes him good and admirable, but his avoidance of politics makes it difficult for him to address the systemic aspects of these issues. In contrast, the Conventionist was working for political change, but that came at the cost of violence. Even though he was opposed to monarchy, he specified that he didn’t vote for the death of the king, and while he did feel that the violence of the old order explained the violence of the Revolution, the fact that he spent so much time on this question indicates that it’s a difficult issue to navigate.

In addition to allowing multiple systems of morality to co-exist, I think Hugo is pointing out the difference between actually adhering to a moral code and paying lip service to it. Everyone in Montreuil-sur-Mer seems fixated on honesty, but most of them (such as Mme Victurnien) are hypocritical about it as well. Sister Simplice, however, is genuinely honest. When she preaches the value of this trait, she’s not doing so to harm others, but out of a real belief that it’s right.

#les mis letters #lm 1.7.1 #sister simplice

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jelepermets · 1 year

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I do love how intense Hugo is about hammering home how Sister Simplice does not lie. How Sister Simplice has never lied. How Sister Simplice sees lying as satanic, literally:

"Satan has two names: He is called Satan, and he is called the Liar."

Like I'm sure this will never come up in the future. At all. Nope

#les miserables #les mis letters #1.7.1 #sister simplice #bern speaks

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twofoursixohjuan · 1 year

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so my takeaway here is that all classic fiction needs a cool nun

sister agatha 🤝 sister simplice

#dracula daily #les mis letters #sister agatha #sister simplice

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woolmasterleel · 3 months

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