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Hugo Chávez and Victor Hugo

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Al Gore, Beníto Juárez, Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, Noam Chomsky, Fantine, George W. Bush, The Bishop of Digne, Eduardo Galeano, Barack Obama, Pablo Neruda, Cosette, Fidel Castro, Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean, Salvador Allende, Oscar Romero, Diego Rivera, Lázaro Cárdenas, Augusto Sandino, Ernesto Cardenal, President Clinton, Daphnee Denis, Victor Jara, World News
Norman MacAfee

I knew that Gore had seen the musical of Les Misérables with his sister, who was dying of cancer. I knew that Chávez's favorite book was Les Misérables. So I put the two men together.

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Victor Hugo and Abraham Lincoln

Norman MacAfee | Posted 03.31.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lee Fahnestock, Javert, Dos Passos, Royal Shakespeare Company, Whitman, Brooklyn Museum?S Egyptian Collection, Claude-Michel Schoenberg, Fantine, Ginsberg, Les Miserables, American Civil War, Leo Tolstoy, David Hancock Turner, Dickens, War and Peace, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Marius, Sartre, Cosette, Neruda, Victor Hugo, LuAnn Walther, C. E. Wilbour, Abraham Lincoln, Alain Boublil, Cameron Mackintosh, Pasolini, Jacobin, Valjean, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

In this film awards season, two works embody enduring pinnacles of idealism.

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My Son, 'Les Miz,' and Me

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.22.2013 | Parents
Read More: Fantine, One Day More, Les Miserables Film, Bring Him Home, Parenting and Les Miz, On My Own, Parentry, Jean Valjean, Cosette, Les Miserables Movie, Les Miserables Soundtrack, Video, Parents News
Lisa Belkin

Lives have soundtracks. Les Miz is ours.

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A Walk With Jean Valjean and Cosette

Lee Fahnestock | Posted 02.12.2013 | Books
Read More: Paris Travel, Paris Walking Tour, Les Miserables Tourism, Jean Valjean, Paris Walking Map, Les Miserables, Cosette, Les Miserables Movie, Parc Monceau, Paris, Boulevard De L'Hôpital, Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Paris, Walking Tour, Books News
Lee Fahnestock

The first of a series of walks by the translator of the first complete, modern edition of Victor Hugo's great novel, Les Misérables. Walk one: Jean Valjean leads Cosette to their first Paris home.

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