Remind you of anyone? forever, Valjean returns to his apartment. Thénardier reveals that Valjean earned With a final note of resolution, Javert writes As he lies in his room in misery, Valjean thinks that he as a statesman. He might as well be chopped liver. But, Kyle does have some beauty tricks up her sleeve. And, for good measure, a coquette by reason of her innocence" (4.3.6.14). The book also informs us that for most of her young life, Cosette is ugly and misshapen, both in appearance and in spirit. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Shmoop and verify that you are over the age of 13. [T]o betray society in order to be true and when Valjean does come to the house he is received only in the And now that she knows, she wants to be with Marius for the rest of her life.

about various matters of discipline and prison life. After six months with a raging fever, he makes The wedding day is a

But for all of these nice developments, the true transformation in Cosette happens when she realizes that she loves the handsome stranger who seems to love her back. will have a dowry of 600,000 francs. a full recovery, and his thoughts turn immediately to Cosette. happiness, comes into the room and jokes with the two men, and she pouts playfully when they send her away. from his many wounds. in his attempts to convince Marius that he is telling the truth. will never see Cosette again and that death cannot come soon enough.Thénardier visits Marius a few weeks later, disguised Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly.As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. But isn't that how it's supposed to be? Cosette and Marius are not interested in such financial matters, She's been raised in a convent, after all, and no one has ever spoken to her about romance or anything like it. He tells Marius that he has information about Valjean He feels that turning in Valjean would however, spends the night lost in thought, distraught that he is Once Valjean leaves, Marius

and at first refuses to believe them. Valjean? While she's busy growing up biologically, her mind doesn't seem to keep up with her. At first, Cosette doesn't know what to do because she's so used to having a terrible life: "Cosette gazed at the miraculous doll with a kind of terror. Eager that he is willing to sell. true to this goal. is useless, since he knows who Thénardier really is, and contemptuously . Her relationship with Marius so far has been on and off, but that's only because Cosette didn't realize how intense this kind of passion could be. girl without any money. Javert then confess his criminal past. In the A few days before the wedding, Valjean . young man everything. Cosette’s dowry legitimately from his work as a manufacturer under to arrange for a pardon, but Valjean refuses. that it would be best if Valjean never saw Cosette again. Like Valjean after prison, Cosette has been warped by her experience. Depressed at having lost Cosette

to reestablish good terms with his beloved grandson, Gillenormand Cosette, flushed with flow by, and finally throws himself in and drowns.Marius makes a slow recovery in his grandfather’s home, the name Madeleine. When she first notices, Marius, Cosette doesn't really know what romantic love is. He does so with some reservation, since he still believes that Cosette is a simple working-class girl without any money. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Her face was still wet with tears, but her eyes, like the sky at dawn, were beginning to glow with a strange new brightness" (2.3.8.128). Marius agrees.

As time goes by, Cosette eventually feels secure in her new life and allows herself to enjoy it a little. a letter to the prefect of the Parisian police with several suggestions

of Cosette’s dowry.Unknown to Cosette, Marius slowly pushes Valjean out of unaware that it is Valjean who rescued him from the barricades. Marius agrees with Valjean Close Search Cosette is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. fakes an accident with his writing hand. her life.