Jean Valjean

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  • Ultime Fauchelevent
  • Urbain Fabre
  • Prisoner 24601
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This article is about the fictional character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables and its various adaptations. For the novel by Solomon Cleaver, see Jean Val Jean. For the asteroid, see 24601 Valjean.

| species = | gender = Male | occupation = * Tree pruner

  • Convict
  • Businessman
  • Mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer

| affiliation = | title = | family = * Jean Valjean Sr. (father)

  • Jeanne Mathieu (mother)
  • Jeanne (sister)
  • Unnamed brother
  • Seven unnamed nieces and nephews

| spouse = | significant_other = | children = Cosette (adoptive daughter; no legal or blood relation) | relatives = * Unnamed brother-in-law

  • Marius Pontmercy (adoptive son-in-law)

| religion = Roman Catholic | nationality = French | lbl21 = Born | data21 = 1769 | lbl22 = Death | data22 = 1833 (aged 64) | lbl23 = | data23 = | extra-hdr = | lbl31 = | data31 = | lbl32 = | data32 = | lbl33 = | data33 = }}

Jean Valjean (French: [ʒɑ̃ val.ʒɑ̃]) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The story depicts the character's struggle to lead a normal life and redeem himself after serving a 19-year-long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's starving children and attempting to escape from prison. Valjean is also known in the novel as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent (once called Tranchelevent by Monsieur Gillenormand), Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre.

Valjean and police Inspector Javert, who repeatedly encounters Valjean and attempts to return him to prison, have become archetypes in literary culture. In the popular imagination, the character of Jean Valjean came to represent Hugo himself.

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