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CONTENTS

    BOOK FIRST.—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM.

  • I. Parvalus 1
  • II. Some of his Particular Characteristics 1
  • III. He is Agreeable 3
  • IV. He may be of Use 4
  • V. His Frontiers 4
  • VI. A Bit of History 6
  • VII. The Gamin should have his Place in the Classifications of India 8
  • VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King 10
  • IX. The Old Soul of Gaul 11
  • X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo 12
  • XI. To Scoff, to Reign 15
  • XII. The Future Latent in the People 17
  • XIII. Little Gavroche 17

    BOOK SECOND.—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS.

  • I. Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth 20
  • II. Like Master, Like House 21
  • III. Luc-Esprit 22
  • IV. A Centernarian Aspirant 23
  • V. Basque and Nicolette 24
  • VI. In which Magnon and her Two Children are seen 25
  • VII. Rule: No One except in the Evening 27
  • VIII. Two do not make a Pair 27

    BOOK THIRD.—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON.

  • I. An Ancient Salon 29
  • II. One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch 33
  • III. Requiescant 38
  • IV. End of the Brigand 45
  • V. The Utility of going to Mass, in order to become a Revolutionist 48
  • VI. The Consequences of having met a Warden 50
  • VII. Some Petticoat 56
  • VIII. Marble against Granite 60

    BOOK FOURTH.—THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC.

  • I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic 65
  • II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet 77
  • III. Marius' Astonishments 82
  • IV. The Back Room of the Cafè Musain 83
  • V. Enlargement of Horizon 89
  • VI. Res Augusta 93

    BOOK FIFTH.—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE.

  • I. Marius Indigent 95
  • II. Marius Poor 97
  • III. Marius Grown Up 100
  • IV. M. Mabeuf 104
  • V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery 108
  • VI. The Substitute 110

    BOOK SIXTH.—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS.

  • I. The Sobriquet; Mode of Formation of Family Names 115
  • II. Lux Facta Est 117
  • III. Effect of the Spring 119
  • IV. Beginning of a Great Malady 120
  • V. Divers Claps of Thunder fall on Ma'am Bougon 123
  • VI. Taken Prisoner 124
  • VII. Adventures of the Letter U delivered over to Conjuntures 127
  • VIII. The Veterans themselves can be Happy 128
  • IX. Eclipse 130

    BOOK SEVENTH.—PATRON MINETTE.

  • I. Mines and Miners 132
  • II. The Lowest Depths 134
  • III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse 136
  • IV. Composition of the Troupe 138

    BOOK EIGHTH.—THE WICKED POOR MAN.

  • I. Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap 141
  • II. Treasure Trove 142
  • III. Quadrifons 144
  • IV. A Rose in Misery 148
  • V. A Providential Peep-Hole 154
  • VI. The Wild Man in his Lair 156
  • VII. Strategy and Tactics 160
  • VIII. The Ray of Light in the Hovel 163
  • IX. Jondrette comes near Weeping 165
  • X. Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs and Hour 169
  • XI. Offer of Service from Misery to Wretchedness 172
  • XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece 174
  • XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster 179
  • XIV. In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer 181
  • XV. Jondrette makes his Purchases 185
  • XVI. In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832 187
  • XVII. The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece 190
  • XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs from a Vis-a-Vis 194
  • XIX. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths 196
  • XX. The Trap 199
  • XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims 222
  • XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two 226