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Les Misérables

[ French ley mee-zey-ra-bluh ]

noun

  1. a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo.


Les Misérables

  1. (1862) A novel by Victor Hugo . The central character , Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for stealing a single loaf of bread. Later, seeking respectability, Valjean is hounded by his archenemy, Inspector Javert.


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Notes

The broad canvas of Hugo's novel has been adapted for numerous films and a long-running Broadway (see also Broadway ) musical (usually known as Les Miz ).

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Example Sentences

Actors have won actors for just singing (Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables).

But you were nominated for an Oscar for Les Misérables 10 days after it opened, so that must have softened the blow.

Yet Hathaway still won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Les Misérables was a global box-office smash.

There was the time she was moved to tears by watching her own performance in Les Misérables.

I hate to compare Les Misérables to Newt Gingrich, but they both polarized voters.

Snugly settled in his bunk, the Prodigal had read another two hundred pages of "Les Misérables."

It is a fragment of Les Misérables over again, in a severer and more restrained technique.

These poor victims of their vicious passions are called in many documents “Les Misérables.”

I question whether any one ever read "Les Misérables" with keener feeling.

And thus it was he who achieved what Hugo, in Les Misérables, had in vain attempted.

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