"Les Miserables" The Novel: Characterization

Have you ever known someone who could not accept that the world was not as he saw it?  A person that had to change in a changing world?  Inspector Javert in "Les Miserables" was a symbol of a society that needed to change during  the French Revolution.  

Javert pursued Jean Valjean for decades, trying to bring him to "justice."  Jean Valjean, however, had changed. This former criminal had become a man of goodness and charity. When Javert had this man in  custody, he was faced with a choice. Should he let this man free, now that he was a man who lived only to help others, or, should he follow his rigid sense of justice, and take him to jail? 

Nina and I walked by the "quay" of the Seine thinking of Javert and his final decision. It is a beautiful scene that symbolized the changes taking in France in the 1700's.

REad "Les Miserables"  by Victor Hugo.  You will be entranced!

Shakespeare and Company is one of the most famous English Language bookstores in Europe!  It is precious and packed full of books...my kind of place!!

I have also included pictures at Giverny. The gardens of Monet, a person who wrote of beauty with paint, rather than words.  As you can imagine, the beauty took my breath away!