Cosette

Cosette , of its true first name Euphrasie , is one of the characters of the novel the Poor wretches of 1862 of Victor Hugo.

Literature

This last took as a starting point a little girl of the name of Marie-Sleeve-board, living the village of Colpo, to describe the condition of Cosette, following a voyage which it made in Brittany and more precisely in the Morbihan.

Biography of the character

It is the natural girl of Fantine and Tholomyès, a young unsteady student resulting from a rich person provincial family. Fantine is given up by Tholomyès. To provide for the needs for her child, it must work and, for that, separate from Cosette. In the urgency, she naively entrusts her daughter to a couple of landlords of the village of Montfermeil, the Thénardier.
These Thénardier will prove to be individuals of the worst species. They will be odious with the child by treating it as their servant while requiring always more money of Fantine which was established with Montreuil-sur-Mer, its natale.
In front of the bed where Fantine expires, Jean Valjean, then mayor of Montreuil, makes the promise with dead to deal with Cosette. It thus goes to Thénardier but will be able to withdraw Cosette from their claws only in theirs buying. The life of the young girl is transformed and it peacefully passes the remainder of its childhood in a convent of Paris where Valjean is jardinier.
Later, at the time of its daily walks with Valjean with the Garden of Luxembourg, Cosette notices a young student, Marius, and they fall in love. After many adventures, they will marry at the price of the sacrifice of Valjean. Cosette will know the true identity of Jean Valjean as well as the name of his/her mother only in the ultimate pages of the novel.

With the cinema and on television

Cosette was in particular incarnated with the cinema and on television by:

See too

  • Cosette by Bayard (House of Victor Hugo)

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