by David Bellos
Boston, MA
BOUBLIL (Alain), French composer
BOUCHER (Jean), French sculptor, 1870–1939
BOVARY (Berthe), a character in Flaubert
Bovary (Emma), a character in Flaubert
Brie
Brown (John), American abolitionist, 1800–1859
Brown University
BRUNEL (Isambard Kingdom), British engineer, 1806–1859
Brussels
Bulletin de la Grande Armée
BULWER-LYTTON (Edward George), English novelist and statesman, 1803–1873
Burgundy
Cadiz
CALDERÓN (Pedro Calderón de la Barca), Spanish dramatist, 1600–1681
California
CAMBRONNE (Pierre), French general, 1770–1842
CAMUS (Albert), French writer, 1913–1960
Cap de la Hague
CAPELLANI (Albert), French film director, 1874–1931
Capital, by Karl Marx
Carmen, short story by Mérimée
CARNÉ (Marcel), French film director, 1906–1996
CARNOT (Sadi), French physicist, 1796–1832
CASSEDY (Albert)
Catalan language
CAVAIGNAC (Louis-Eugène), French soldier and politician, 1802–1857
CÉRÉSA (François)
CHAMBERS (Ephraim), English writer, 1680–1740
Chambéry (Savoie)
Chamonix (Haute-Savoie)
CHAMPMATHIEU
CHAMPOLLION (Jean-François), French philologist, 1790–1832
Channel Islands, see also under Chaussey, Guernsey, Herm, Jersey and Sark
Chants de Maldoror, poetry collection by Lautréamont
Charity, play by Charles Hazlewood
CHARLEMAGNE
CHARLES X, King of France, 1757–1836
CHARRAS (Jean-Baptiste), French soldier, 1810–1865
Chartreuse de Parme, La, novel by Stendhal
Chastisements, see under Châtiments
Château d’If, French prison
Châtiments, Les, poetry collection by Victor Hugo
Chaussey (Manche)
CHAVROCHE, draft name of Gavroche
CHEN DUXIN
Chenay (Julie, née Foucher), 1822–1905
Chenay (Paul), French engraver, 1818–1906
CHEVALIER (Jean-Gabriel), inventor of a patented thermometer, 1778–1848
Children of Paradise, see under Les Enfants du paradis
China
Choses vues, by Victor Hugo
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES, author of the Story of the Grail
Cifuentes, Battle of
CINDERELLA
Citizen Kane, film by Orson Welles
Civitavecchia (Italy)
CLAQUESOUS
Claude Gueux, by Victor Hugo
CLAYE, printer
Cligès, poem by Chrétien de Troyes
Cogolhudo, Battle of
Colonel Chabert, Le, story by Balzac
COMBEFERRE
Commodore Clipper
Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
COMPASSION, Mother
Contemplations, Les, poetry collection by Victor Hugo
Convict Martyr, A, stage play
Copenhagen, Battle of
COPPERFIELD (David), a character in Dickens
CORBIN, medical doctor
COSETTE (Euphrasie Pontmercy, née Tholomyès)
Cosette ou le temps des illusions, sequel by François Cérésa
Cosette, sequel by Laura Kalpakian
Cosette, stage play
COSTER (Charles de), founder of Belgian literature in French, 1827–1879
Cotentin Peninsula
COURFEYRAC
Courier, a steamship
Cours familier de littérature, by Lamartine
Cousine Bette, novel by Balzac
COWL, Darry, psd of André Darricaud, French actor, 1925–2006
CRATCHITT (Timothy), a character in Dickens
CREAKLE (Mr), a schoolmaster in Dickens
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crimea
CUVILLIER-FLEURY (Armand), French critic, 1802–1887
Cyclopaedia, by Ephraim Chambers
Cydathenaeum, an Attic deme
Cygnus, a steamship
CZARTORYSKI (Adam), Polish aristocrat, 1770–1861
D, see under Digne
D’ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond), French mathematician, 1717–1783
D’ANGERS (David), psd of Pierre–Jean David, French sculptor, 1788–1856
D’ARTOIS (Henri), Duc de Bordeaux, pretender to the French throne, 1820–1833
D’AUREVILLY (Jules Barbey), French writer and journalist, 1808–1889
DAHLIA
Daily National (Shanghai)
DANTE ALIGHIERI, Florentine poet, 1265–1321
DANTÈS (Edmond), a character in Dumas
DAOUD (Kamel), Algerian novelist
DARD (Frédéric), French writer, 1921–2000
DAUDET (Alphonse), French writer, 1840–1897
DAUMIER (Honoré), French artist, 1808–1879
David Copperfield, novel by Dickens
DAWKINS (Jack, known as The Artful Dodger), a character in Dickens
DE GAULLE (Charles), French statesman, 1890–1970
DE GÉRANDO (Joseph-Marie), French philanthropist, 1772–1842
Declaration of the Rights of Man
DELACROIX (Eugène), French painter, 1798–1863
DELANO (Captain), a character in Melville
DELVAU (Alfred)
Denmark
DENNY (Norman), British translator
Dernier Jour d’un condamné, see under Last Day of A Condemned Man
DES ANGES, Mother
DICKENS (Charles), English novelist, 1812–1870
DIDEROT (Denis), French writer, 1713–1784
Digne
DISRAELI (Benjamin), English novelist and politician, 1804–1881
Dombey and Son, novel by Dickens
DONOUGHER (Christine), translator of Les Misérables
DOOLITTLE (Eliza), a character in Shaw
DORRITT (Amy), a character in Dickens
DOSTOEVSKY (Fyodor), Russian novelist, 1821–1881
Dover
Dresden, Battle of
DROUET (Juliette, née Gauvain), 1806–1883
DUMAS (Alexandre), French novelist, 1802–1870
Ecce Lex, see under The Hanged Man
Edinburgh
Egypt
Elba
ELIZABETH I of England, 1553–1603
Elsinore
Encyclopédie, by Diderot and d’Alembert
Enfants du paradis, Les, film by Carné
ENGELS (Friedrich), German philosopher and businessman, 1820–1895
England
English language
ENJOLRAS
Enjonine
EPPONINA, Gaulish heroine
ESQUIROS (Alphonse), French writer and politician, 1812–1876
Essay on the Principle of Population, by Malthus
ESTASSE (Victoire)
European Union
Evènement, L’, newspaper
Expiation, poem by Victor Hugo
Eylau, Battle of
FABRE (Urbain), assumed name of Jean Valjean
FAGIN, a character in Dickens
FANG YU
FANNY
Fantine or the Fate of a Grisette, play by A Cassedy
FANTINE
Fantine, stage play
Farsi language
FAUCHELEVENT (Ultime), adopted name of Jean Valjean
FAUCHELEVENT
FAUST, a character in Goethe
Faverolles (Aisne)
FAVOURITE
FERRY (Jules), French statesman, 1832–1893
FESCOURT (Henri), French film director, 1880–1966
FEUILLY
Flanders
Flaubert (Gustave), French novelist, 1821–1880
FLETCHER (Susan)
Fleurs du mal, Les, by Charles Baudelaire
FLYTE (Miss), a character in Dickens
FORSTER (John), English biographer, 1812–1876
Franco-Norman dialect
French language
Friends of the ABC
G
GALOIS (Évariste), French mathematician, 1811–1832
GARIBALDI (Giuseppe), Italian nationalist, 1807–182
GARY (Romain), psd of Roman Kacew, writer and diplomat, 1914–1980
GAUTIER (Théophile), French writer, 1811–1872
GAVROCHE
Gavrosh, film by Tatiana Lukashevich
Geneva
GENGHIS KHAN, 1162–1227
Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine)
German language
Germany
Germinal, novel by Zola
Giber in Keyten, Der, play in Yiddish
GILLENORMAND (Théodule)
GILLENORMAND, LUC–ESPRIT
GILLENORMAND, Mademoiselle
GIRARDIN (Delphine de)
GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von), German writer, 1749–1832
GOGOL (Nikolai Vasilievich), Russian writer, 1809–1852
GOSSELIN (Charles), French publisher, 1793–1859
GRABIŃSKI (Stefan), Polish writer, 1887–1936
GRANTAIRE
Great Eastern, see under Leviathan
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Greece
Grenoble
Grey Room, The, story by Stefan Grabińksi
Guadeloupe
GUÉRIN (Théophile)
Guernsey
Fermain Bay
Hauteville Street
Le Havelet
Old Bank
Saumarez Street
St Peter Port
GUEULEMER
GUIZOT (François), French historian and statesman, 1787–1874
Gulf Stream
HACHETTE (Louis), French bookseller, 1800–1864
Hamburg
Hanged Man, The, watercolour by Victor Hugo
Hard Times, novel by Dickens
Harlot High and Low, A, see under Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Harper’s Ferry, VA
Harry Potter, novel series by J. K. Rowling
HAUSSMANN (Georges-Eugène), 1809–1891
Hauteville House
HAZLEWOOD (Colin Henry), English playwright, 1823–1875
HEINE (Heinrich), German poet and journalist, 1797–1856
Henry IV, by Shakespeare
HERCULES, legendary hero
Herm
Hernani, play by Victor Hugo
Hesdin (Pas-de-Calais)
HETZEL (Pierre-Jules), French publisher and children’s author, 1814–1886
HIGDEN (Mrs), a character in Dickens
HIGGINS (Henry), a character in Shaw
HISOAKA (Keiji)
Histoire d’Adèle H, film by Truffaut
Histoire de la campagne de 1815, by Charras
Histoire des Girondins, by Lamartine
Holland
Hollywood
HOLT (Clarance), actor and playwright, 1826–1903
HOMER, Greek bard
Homme, L’, newspaper
Hong Kong
HOOPER (Tom), British film director
HUCHELOUP
HUGO (Adèle, née Foucher), wife of Victor Hugo, 1803–1868
HUGO (Adèle), known as Adèle II, younger daughter of Victor Hugo, 1830–1915
HUGO (Charles), younger son of Victor Hugo, 1826–1871
HUGO (Eugène), Victor Hugo’s elder brother, 1800–1837
HUGO (François-Victor), elder son of Victor Hugo, 1828–1873
HUGO (Georges), Victor Hugo’s grandson, 1868–1925
HUGO (Jeannne), Victor Hugo’s granddaughter, 1867–1941
HUGO (Léopold-Sigisbert), father of Victor Hugo, 1773–1828
HUGO (Léopoldine), elder daughter of Victor Hugo, 1824–1843
HUGO (Sophie, née Trébuchet), mother of Victor Hugo, 1772–1821
HULOT (Hector), a character in Balzac
Hunchback of Notre Dame, see under Notre–Dame de Paris
Hungary
Hurst and Blackett, London publishers
Israel
Italian language
Italy
Jan Barujan, film by Ushida
JANIN (Jules), French writer and critic, 1804–1874
Japan
JAVERT
JEAN (Raymond), French novelist, 1925–2012
Jean Tréjean, draft title of Les Misérables
Jean Valjean, play by Seymour
Jena, Battle of
Jersey, CI
Marine Terrace
JESUS CHRIST
JOHN LACKLAND, King of England, 1166–1216
JOLY
JONDRETTE, see also under Thénardier
Journal des Débats, newspaper
JOYCE (James), Irish novelist, 1882–1941
JULIUS CAESAR BCE–44BCE
JULIUS SABINUS, Gaulish chieftain
Junius, Le, periodical
JUNO, goddess
KACEWA (Mina)
KADARE (Ismail), Albanian novelist
KALPAKIAN (Laura)
KARAMAZOV (Ivan), a character in Dostoevsky
KESSLER (Hennet de), French exile, 1804–1870
Killiecrankie, Battle of
KING OF ROME, see under Napoléon–François Bonaparte
KOPPITZ (Charles), composer of Velocipede Gallop, 1830–1873
La Fallue, house of Juliette Drouet
La Hulpe
La Laudinière, estate
La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil (Pas-de-Calais)
La Militère, estate
LACROIX (Albert), Belgian publisher, 1834–1903
Lacroix, Verboekhoven et Cie
LAFAYETTE (Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette), French soldier, 1757–1834
LAFFITTE (Jacques), French banker and politician, 1767–1844
LAMARQUE (Jean-Maximilien), French soldier, 1770–1832
LAMARTINE (Alphonse de), French poet and statesman, 1790–1869
LANVIN (Jacques), a print worker who lent his passport to Victor Hugo
LAS CASES (Emmanuel), French cartographer, 1766–1842
LASSALLE (Charles), New York publisher
Last Day of a Condemned Man, by Victor Hugo
Latin language
Laurium, city in Greece
LAUTRÉAMONT (comte de), psd of Isidore Ducasse, poet, 1846–1870
LE CARRÉ (John), psd of David Cornwell, thriller writer
LEAR, character in Shakespeare
LEBEL, prison director
LEBLANC, presumed name of Jean Valjean
LEE (Robert E.), American general, 1807–1870
Leipzig
LELOUCH (Claude), French film director
LEROUX (Pierre), French thinker, 1797–1871
Leviathan, steamship
LI DAN
Liberty Guiding the People, painting by Delacroix
Liberty, sculpture by Bartholdi x
Liège
Life a User’s Manual, by Georges Perec
Lille (Nord)
Lion of Waterloo
Lisbon
Livorno
Lodi, Battle of
Loire, River
London
British Library
Cable Street
Crystal Palace
Greenwich
Marylebone
Sydenham
Trafalgar Square
Waterloo Station
Lord of the Rings, novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
LOUET (Anna), draft name of Cosette
LOUET (Marguerite), draft name of Fantine
LOUIS XVI, King of France, 1754–1793
LOUIS XVIII, King of France, 1755–1824
LOUIS–PHILIPPE D’ORLEANS, King of the French
LUKASHEVICH (Tatiana), Russian film director, 1905–1972
LUMI�
�RE (Auguste), inventor of the cinematograph, 1862–1954
LUMIÈRE (Louis), inventor of the cinematograph, 1864–1948
LUX, a dog
Lyon (Rhône)
MABEUF
MACKINTOSH (Cameron)
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
MADELEINE, name assumed by Jean Valjean
Mademoiselle Bovary, novel by Raymond Jean
Madrid
MAGNON, La
MAGWITCH, a character in Dickens
MAIGRET (Jules), a character in Simenon
Maison de Victor Hugo (Guernsey)
Maison de Victor Hugo (Paris)
MAITLAND (Peregrine), British general, 1777–1854
MALTHUS (Robert), English cleric and scholar, 1766–1834
Manchester
MAO ZEDONG, Chinese leader, 1893–1976
MARCH (Fredric), American actor, 1887–1975
Marengo, Battle of
Marius ou le fugitif, sequel by François Cérésa
Marius, by Marcel Pagnol
MARTIN–DUPONT (Nathanaël)
MARX (Karl), German philosopher, 1818–1883
MARY SIXTY, nickname of the Hugos’ cook
Massacre in Rue Transnonain, by Daumier
MAUGER (Tom), craftsman
MAURIN (Pierre)
Melancholia, poem by Victor Hugo
MELVILLE (Herman), American novelist, 1819–1891
Mémoires d’un forban philosophe
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, Le, by Las Cases
MEPHISTOPHELES
Mer de Glace
MÉRIMÉE (Prosper), French writer and antiquarian, 1803–1870
MEURICE (Paul), French playwright, 1818–1905
Meursault Investigation, The, by Kamel Daoud
MICAWBER (Wilkins), a character in Dickens
MICHELET (Jules), French historian, 1798–1874
MICKIEWICZ (Adam), Polish poet, 1798–1855
MILESTONE (Lewis), American director, 1895–1980
MIOLLIS (Baron Francis de)
MIOLLIS (François Bienvenu de), Bishop of Digne, 1753–1843
Misérables du XXe siècle, Les, film by Lelouch
Misérables, Les, opera by Boublil and Schönberg
Misérables, Les, Drame, by Charles Hugo
Misères, Les, draft title of Les Misérables
Miseria, drawing by Victor Hugo
MISÉRICORDE, Mother
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU, see under Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel
Mont-Saint-Jean
MONTE CRISTO, COUNT OF, see under Edmond Dantès
Montenotte, Battle of
Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Montfort-l’Amaury (Yvelines)
MONTPARNASSE
Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais)
Moscow
MOSES
MOTOHASHI (Koichi), Japanese animator, 1930–2010
MR APOLLO, pseudonym of Victor Hugo
Mumbai
MUSKERRY (William), playwright
MYRIEL (Charles-François-Bienvenu)
Myrrhinus, a quarter of Ancient Athens
Mystères de Paris (Mysteries of Paris), novel by Eugène Sue
Napoléon le Petit, by Victor Hugo