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Fantine ( French pronunciation: [fɑ̃.tin]) is a fictional character in Victor Hugo 's 1862 novel Les Misérables. She is a young grisette in Paris who is impregnated by a rich student. After he abandons her, she is forced to look after their child, Cosette, on her own.
Fantine is the tritagonist in the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. She is a grisette (a young working-class French woman) who is the mother of Euphrasie known throughout the film as Cosette. Fantine was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer in 1796, but her parents are unknown even to her.
Fantine is a poor, working-class girl from the desolate seacoast town of Montreuil-sur-mer, an orphan who has almost no education and can neither read nor write. Fantine is inevitably betrayed by the people she does trust: Tholomyès gets her pregnant and then disappears; the Thénardiers take Cosette and use the child to extort more money; and ...
The narrator portrays Fantine as emblematic of social wretchedness, especially as it relates to women, and especially when it results from lack of compassion in society. Get the entire Les Miserables LitChart as a printable PDF.
A summary of “Fantine,” Book Five: The Descent in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Les Misérables and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
A list of all the characters in Les Misérables. Les Misérables characters include: Jean Valjean, Cosette, Javert, Marius Pontmercy, Fantine, Bishop Myriel, Monsieur Thénardier, Éponine.
Fantine works fifteen hours a day to support her child Cosette (who has gone off to live with the cruel Thénardier family). But eventually her shocking status as an unwed mother is discovered, she's fired from her job at Valjean's factory, and she ends up on the street.
While Fantine may be an orphan, her life on the streets of Paris has not diminished her dreamy, modest nature one bit. Living... in nineteenth century France – an era that was not kind to neither single mothers nor idealistic young girls.
Summary. In 1815, M. Charles François-Bienvenu Myriel has been Bishop of Digne for nine years. He is seventy-five years old and lives only with a sister Baptistine, ten years younger than he, and an old servant, Madame Magloire, the same age as his sister. The bishop's background destined him to a worldly career.
In this book, we are introduced to one of the most pathetic characters in the novel, Fantine. A young girl of humble origins, she has retained her candor and compassion in the libertine company she keeps. Although she has taken a lover, Félix Tholomyès, she treats her affair with the romantic intensity of a first love.
