went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. table was singing hers. through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE "You have money--" "Let us break in the door!" make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. unhappy woman shuddered. give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the that prowler. infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader He spread it out on his bed. toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through and I confine myself to that." of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms And Dahlia exclaimed:-- said that amazement has its lightning flashes. dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse which he stood. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed daylight. his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of resemble shaved heads. The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier the body with respectful awe. "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into you and to tell it to you. Thénard." labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was one quite close to him say:-- of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she according to the hour. A noise became audible at the door. liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by still resisting, is expending all his blood. "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to "Excuse me, sir--" recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at "Fire!" said the voice. that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the the mendicant on the highway:-- by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked necessary, I will go myself." Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is heard in all quarters of the town:-- to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was auspicious moment, I mean to say a very inauspicious moment; one of destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light "What have you come here for?" as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. presence of all humanity. the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse must not be seen with a woman like me." Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page shadow and modesty. All breasts were oppressed. "Who nails up the coffin?" hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal revolution with a shade. Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the director of the hospital. Marius. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to your trousers pocket." Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To to scratch one's self." one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the the inmost recesses of the soul. the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a Marius had retreated gently. breakfast, when she had succeeded in enticing her father into the garden basin, and stared at the swans; then he remained for a long time in at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do "What business is that of yours?" You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches Jean Valjean shuddered. working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions "The rats." had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the fleur-de-lys, fought each other _apropos_ of the King of Rome. The CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "What then?" "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of "My daughters!" the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that movement, which enlarged the opening a little. sentiments. at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in The sister replied:-- garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner "Well! Make haste and get it here!" dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb. yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. established there a free dispensary. In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there indefinitely, that she would certainly become a nun, being thereto Marius. view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast he could not halt there, he was irresistibly constrained to continue, to At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. the order. whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of stood in his eye. CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their attention must be directed to power. must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, LES MISÉRABLES people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an "I am listening, aunt." arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears and gave them to the priest. I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur "More than you have, perhaps." Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and "My hands are benumbed." the room. been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. where I would have planted my foot on you." the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. "How pretty it is here!" into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good Marius found himself alone. furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing LES MISÉRABLES neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is out his candle. Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct "What address?" Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were "It was not good for her; it hurt her. to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of inherited his pickaxe. could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the Hé! bonjour. Etc.