#baptistine

[jazzyjuno]

"Everything here is yours. What need have I to know your name?"

messy 2am sketches of book 1-2 since im rereading along with les mis letters ^o^

[thepigeonsart]

Les Mis au where they all live in the same building (The Lore long post™)

This is too niche but if you know me you know I’m obsessed with les mis, and I’ve been binge watching the six seasons of Aquí No Hay Quien Viva (a very famous spanish comedy show from the 2000s) (in which btw Daniel Diges aka spanish Enjolras is in like two episodes) so I had to make it an au. You don’t have to watch the show to understand it because it’s more a “I’m stealing the entire concept and using it for my modern les mis headcanons” than an au, but you have to know that the show is about a building and the people who live in it. This means I’m taking the characters of les mis and putting them all inside a building as if I were playing Tomodachi Life.

In the original the building is called Desengaño 21 (Disappointment 21), so to make it more les mis coded in the au it’ll be called Misery 32. I once said that les mis can be a comedy if you try hard enough and I want to prove it.

I made a doddle to organize in which floor each character would live and with who but this will change as the au advances. This is just how it is at the beginning. I added an extra floor, in the show there are only 3, but les mis has too many characters

Inhabitants of Misery 32, by order of flat:

1ºA: Joly, Musichetta and Bossuet. Musichetta is a middle school teacher, she was Joly’s girlfriend until he caught her having an affair with his friend Bossuet, since then the three of them are happily dating each other in a polycule. Joly is a surgeon and Bossuet works at a videoclub next door to the building. They live in the first floor because Bossuet is clumsy as fuck and they don’t want him to accidentally fall from the balcony and get hurt (it has happened before), and because Joly is a cane user and the elevator of the building is always broken.

1ºB: Valjean, Javert and Cosette: Valjean is an ex convict and Cosette is his adoptive daughter, as in canon. Javert used to be a police inspector but quitted his job after redeeming himself (not entirely, he’s still an asshole with everyone who isn’t Valjean). All of this is kept in secret from their neighbors, they tell them Valjean used to be a factory owner and mayor of a town (which is true at the end of the day). They tell people (even Cosette) that they are just friends as they think they are too old to come out of the closet and Javert is lowkey gay and homophobic, but everyone knows they fuck. Valjean is named president of the community against his will for his past as a mayor, he hates that position, but if it’s what his neighbors want he accepts it. Cosette has a crush on both Marius and Éponine. They live on the first floor because Javert has tried to throw himself from tall places before, better safe than sorry.

2ºA: Magloire, Baptistine and Hucheloup (or how their neighbours call them: The Golden Girls): Baptistine is the sister of the late Bishop Myriel. Magloire and her are two spinsters who may or may not have something sapphic going on. Hucheloup is their friend who started living with them after her husband passed away. She is the owner of the Corinthe, a tavern on that same street. She used to live in the 3ºB when her husband was alive but now rents it to two of her waitresses and a friend of theirs.

2ºB: Enjolras and Combeferre. And they were roommates. Combeferre is a pediatrician and Enjolras is a social worker. They’re best friends and have known each other (and Courfeyrac) since school. Enjolras is the founder of Les Amis and the others join progressively. (Also, amis relevant fact: The Musain isn’t a café, it’s a videoclub (in the show there is a videoclub next to the building and a group of friends who live there have their reunions there, they are called “the wise men council” and they even have a 12 year old too lmao)). At some point Enjolras and Cosette figure out that they are half siblings, which is a scandal in the entire building. The joke of them looking alike got too far💀

3ºA: Éponine and Grantaire. That flat used to be the home to the entire Thènardier family, until the parents got in legal problems. They hid in the basement for a while, until they got caught and sent to jail (this happened before Valjean, Javert and Cosette moved to the buildinghere). Since then Éponine has been living there since she is the only adult of the Thènardier children while her siblings are in foster houses, they visit her very often and she’s trying to adopt them. Grantaire is a friend who’s living with her. He’s a painter with a failure of artistic career and has a big crush on Enjolras, the guy doesn’t seem to notice him tho.

3ºB: Louison (the waitress of the Musain, I'm pretty sure her name was something like that but maybe I just made it up, who knows??), Matelote and Gibelotte: Matelote and Gibelotte are Hucheloup’s waitresses at the Corinthe. Matelote hates Grantaire because he called her ugly once at a neighbors reunion. She and Gibelotte are girlfriends. Lucienne works at the Musain (the videoclub) with Bahorel.

4ºA: Feuilly, Jehan and Montparnasse: Jehan and Montparnasse are dating, no one really knows why, they are so different. Everyone loves Jehan but Montparnasse is a dick who doesn’t beat the vampire allegations, everyone’s scared of him (except for Jehan and Éponine who apparently had a situationship with him). Feuilly is the doorman of the building, he hates his job.

4ºB: Courfeyrac, Marius and Mabeuf: Courfeyrac and Marius met at law school (yeah, law school, but they are only there because their parents (grandfather in Marius’ case) forced them). Courfeyrac used to live alone but when Marius had a big fight with his grandfather he went to live with him. Mabeuf just kind of joined them later, who doesn’t love to have a 60 year old roommate?

I think I forgot about Bahorel 💀

That's it for now!! I'll keep not being normal about this au. It lives rent free in my head

[hadleysmis]

Jean Valjean receives a candlestick from the Bishop despite stealing his silvers, 京剧 悲惨世界 (2006)

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Prudence Counselled to Wisdom, LM 1.2.2 (Les Miserables 1935)

“We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying ‘come in’; and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no need to ask permission.” At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. “Come in,” said the Bishop.

[lesmisscraper]

The Demise of the Bishop, and M. Madeleine in Mourning. Volume 1, Book 5, Chapter 4.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

[ueinra]

Les Misérables, French Comic by Houy Raymond (1953)

I love how the women look in this comic so much.

[psalm22-6]

The Queensland Times, 7 July 1928

[lesbianvaljean]

extremely enjoying the no-spoilers @lesmisletters discussions in which we all collectively pretend the whole brick is about Bishop Myriel.

having finished A Just Man (Bishop Myriel 1), am now looking forward to the following chapters:

2 Bishop 2 Myriel

Bishop Myriel: Digne Drift

Bishop & Myriel

Bishop 5

Bishop Myriel 6

Myriel 7

The Fate of the Bishop

B9

[fiction-podcast-lover]

In honor of pride month may I spread Madame Magloire x mademoiselle Baptistine propaganda

[undead-nothosaur]

His three right hand men

The Count Of Monte Cristo's three weed smoking girlfriends tbh

I am once again asking everyone i know to watch Gankutsuou please look at my beautiful men! Aren't you tempted? Don't you want to know what their deal is??

[gavroche-le-moineau]

I already missed a translation note by a day on day 3 of Les Mis Letters oop

I have a problem with Hapgood's translation of this line in the description of Mademoiselle Baptistine: “...large eyes forever drooping;—a mere pretext for a soul’s remaining on the earth.” In French: “...de grands yeux toujours baissés ; un prétexte pour qu’une âme reste sur la terre.”

The word "drooping" here doesn't seem quite right. I'm following along this year with the FMA translation and it does a much better job with: "...large eyes, always downcast, a pretext for a soul to remain on earth."

The phrase "des yeux baissés" as it appears in the French means "lowered/downcast eyes." I kind of understand what Hapgood means with "forever drooping" but it just sounds to me like Mlle Baptistine is always nodding off or that she has a droopy-eyed look, neither of which are right.

[ofpd]

people love femslash exr but i've never found an eposette fic that gets at the specific idea of them in my head... says a lot about society

[lenievi]

a lot of things just come down to this Spock's comment: I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million.

even Bishop Myriel

[ferociousconscience]

From the Archives: A woodblock print of Jean Valjean dining with the Bishop. The artist for this one is listed as Méaulle, Fortuné Louis, and it is dated 1879.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Cravatte, LM 1.1.7 (Les Miserables - Takahiro Arai)

He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound at the residence of his “good friends,” the shepherds. He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to chant a Te Deum pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. “Bah!” said the Bishop. “Let us announce our Te Deum from the pulpit, nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves.” They instituted a search in the churches of the neighborhood. All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop’s cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d’Embrun. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, “From Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu.” “Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?” said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, “To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop.” “Monseigneur,” murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. “God—or the Devil.” The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, “God!” When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest’s house in Chastelar he rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting for him, and he said to his sister: “Well! was I in the right? The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.”

[lesmisscraper]

The Bishop's Invitation. Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 3.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.