#theodule

[daily-les-mis-quotes]

The man, the myth, the legend

[jolys-cane]

72tober day 2!!

he is such a little silly. i changed the 'aunt' in the original caption to auntie to be like my book translation because i love that he calls her auntie

[secretmellowblog]

I love how Théodule’s only role in Les Mis is to show up at random times to be very useless and shallow and petty. King

[alicedrawslesmis]

all this Theodule/Montparnasse rarepair content inspired me lol

[ueinra]

Les Misérables | Lebanese Series (1974)

Did you know that Theodule appeared in this wonderful adaptation??! If ur interested, He appears at the end of episode eight and the beginning of episode nine.

But his aunt doesn’t ask him to spy on Marius here. Theodule comes and the quarrel has already occurred between Marius and his grandfather, and his aunt tells him everything about the quarrel and that Marius has been expelled.

Her purpose in telling him all this is that she wants him to take advantage of this opportunity and get closer to M. Gillenormand and take Marius's place so that he can get the inheritance.

and this is so funny to me like give a character who literally does NOTHING in the story a kinda big deal like this? M. Gillenormand doesn’t even give him a chance to come close and shouts at him a lot here ASIKDASDF

Also:

[to23623ken]

rip victor hugo you would've loved femboys

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

marius’s gay cousin theodule in: snooping for auntie!

“haha i wonder how girlypop this girl marius is seeing is- that is not a girl.”

[pureanonofficial]

Marius and Cosette in ‚the musings of a cousin‘

send me a ship + a fake fic title, and i’ll tell you what the fic is about.

Theodule prides himself in his sensitivity towards women's feelings. Being oddly perceptive in some ways, he notices Mme. Pontmercy's new forcibly bright disposition. Being rather a well-meaning idiot, he completely misses the reason why, and he takes it upon himself to ... educate his cousin in the best way to please a woman. Marius nearly chokes him out for his pains. Somehow, through Theodule's Wodehousian fumblings and comedy of errors, this turns into a fix it, and Valjean lives, he and Cosette reunite, and Marius gets dunked on.

[diioss-art]

I know this is a pretty niche brick meme but - Theodule in Volume 4 Book 5

[weiwuxiankinnie]

my ADHD never stops me from reading a good book and understanding it. But today, skimming through Les Mis tags, I realized that, when reading the brick, my mind made up a non-existent character.

This character was Theodule Montparnasse, a juxtaposition of Marius' cousin and the famous rogue.

For some reason, I thought those two were the same character and proceeded as if they were. Theodule had his woman's waist, with Montparnasse's good looks. He went to the capital to be a rogue behind his grandfather's back.

And when his grandfather tells him that he had to choose between being a "bully boy" and a "pretty boy", well, you can see how I had interpreted it.

So yes, I was today years old when I found out those two were different characters.

[protectionsquad24601]

The scene where Théodule is trailing Marius feels like a sitcom moment, "oooh I wanna see his girlfriend" and the fact that he's TIPTOEING WITH BOOTS ON. dork.

and then the mood shifted so suddenly to Marius sobbing over his dad's grave that I got whiplash & wasn't okay for a whole day.

[daily-les-mis-quotes]

Let the poor man change his name

[jolys-cane]

Theodule and Montparnasse. Chop chop art boy

boyfriends

Send me a ✍ and a character and I’ll draw the character horribly on MS Paint.

[cliozaur]

The one, in which Marius ignores the beginning of the revolt (Lamarque’s funeral). Well, he is deeply depressed, and, let’s be honest, he was never interested in Les Amis’ affairs.

But even before that: Hugo is so wrong here! “Marius was at an age when one believes nothing in the line of evil” — with this, he tries to explain that Marius was not jealous of Cosette because of Théodule. Ha! Wasn’t it that same Marius who was ready to beat up some poor invalid because of his own sick fantasy?

Before going out on the 5th of June, he somehow finds the pistols (presented to him by Javert) and takes them with him. We are told that he did it absent-mindedly, but it could also mean that Marius is already suicidal. He forgets to eat, he takes a bath in the Seine (Probably. He himself is not sure about it). Marius, wake up!

His last hope to see Cosette in the evening is gone, because Jean Valjean followed the advice he read in the note and left the house on the Rue Plumet. And there is a confirmation that Marius indeed wants to kill himself: “his heart filled with sweetness and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left for him was to die.” (It’s far too romantic a presentation of the decision to end one’s life – you have to be very careful with it, M. Hugo!)

Last thing we learn is that Éponine calls Marius to join his friends (are they?) at the barricade. Given that neither of them is motivated by revolutionary fervour, we can suspect that these two are simply ready to die. (And in the next chapter, they will be joined by the third person with a similar motivation.)

[pilferingapples]

on the topic of theodule, I've always thought about how Fucked Up it would be if theodule was one of the national guardsmen attacking the barricades....

It would be ! But then he is a lancer, a specific kind of trained officer , meant for charging straight at the foe on horseback with a long straight weapon-- about the worst option for deployment in the narrow, twisting streets of a Parisian insurrection. From the wiki:

At the Battle of Waterloo, French lances were "nearly 3 metres (9.8 ft) long, weighed around 3 kilograms (6.6 lb), and had a steel point on a wooden staff," according to historian Alessandro Barbero.

9.8 feet of lance!! At charging speeds! AU where Theodule charges a barricade and gets stuck in it, bobblin' around like a cat toy on a stick.

--being at least a little more serious: I am definitely not an expert on Restoration/July Monarchy French Military units! If someone else out there wants to provide more info about what Theodule and his lancer buddies were up to in this time, I would love to hear it!

[ueinra]

Les Misérables | Lebanese Series (1974)

This is what I meant when I said that Theodule has no chance to get close to M. Gillenormand, He’s literally yells at him all the time lol.. but he deserves this.

and after all that yelling at him, he comes back and sits next to M. Gillenormand at the end of the scene:

bro has ZERO self respect.