2025-12-07 Sunday: 3.1.1 ; Marius / Paris Studied in Its Atom / Parvulus (Paris étudié dans son atome / Parvulus)

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Marius Frontispiece

All quotations and characters names from 3.1.1: Parvulus / Parvulus

(Quotations from the text are always italicized, even when “in quotation marks”, to distinguish them from quotations from other sources.)

Summary courtesy u/Honest_Ad_2157: A gamin, gamin' / all the day long in the streets, / the child of Paris

Lost in Translation

Parvulus

Latin for "small". Rose and Donougher have notes that it refers to a child in this title.

Characters

Involved in action

None.

Mentioned or introduced

• Paris. Last mention as a character in 2.8.1 as a place Valjean cannot return to.
• Gamins, as a class. First mention.
• God, the Father, Jehovah, the Christian deity. Last mentioned prior chapter as the object of the nuns' gaze.

Prompt

These prompts are my take on things, you don’t have to address any of them. All prompts for prior cohorts are also in play. Anything else you’d like to raise is also up for discussion.

Fantine was a child of the village, raised by that village in common, dangerously naive because of it. Going to the city was a disaster for her. Quite a contrast to these gamins. Thoughts?

Bonus Prompt

Break for Child of the City.

Smoke 'em if you got em.

Past cohorts' discussions

• 2019-05-27
• 2020-05-27
• 2021-05-27
• No posts until 3.1.2 on 2022-05-28
• 2025-12-07

Words read	WikiSource Hapgood	Gutenberg French
This chapter	253	234
Cumulative	222,715	204,752

Final Line

If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: "It is my little one."

Si l'on demandait à l'énorme ville: Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela? elle répondrait: C'est mon petit.

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3.1.2: Some of his Particular Characteristics / Quelques-uns de ses signes particuliers

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