Now write a possible conversation between the police and the Jean valjean
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Jean Valjean, after spending nineteen years in jail and in the galleys for stealing a loaf of
bread to feed his starving family (and for several attempts to escape) is finally released, but his
past keeps haunting him. At Digne, he is repeatedly refused shelter for the night. Only the
saintly bishop, Monseigneur Myriel, welcomes him. Valjean repays his host's hospitality by
stealing his silverware. When the police bring him back, the bishop protects his errant guest by
pretending that the silverware is a gift. With a pious lie, he convinces them that the convict has
promised to reform. After one more theft, Jean Valjean does indeed repent. Under the name of
M. Madeleine he starts a factory and brings prosperity to the town of Montreuil.
Alone and burdened with an illegitimate child, Fantine is on the way back to her
hometown of Montreuil, to find a job. On the road, she entrusts her daughter to an innkeeper
and his wife, the Thénardiers. In Montreuil, Fantine finds a job in Madeleine's (Valjean’s) factory
and attains a modicum of prosperity. Unfortunately she is fired after it is discovered that she has
an illegitimate child. At the same time, she must meet increasing financial demands by the
Thénardiers. Defeated by her difficulties, Fantine turns to prostitution. Tormented by a local
idler, she causes a disturbance and is arrested by Inspector Javert. Only Madeleine's (Valjean’s)
forceful intervention keeps her out of jail. She catches a fever, however, and her health
deteriorates dangerously. Death is imminent and M. Madeleine (Valjean) promises to bring her
daughter, Cosette, to her.
Madeleine (Valjean), however, is faced with serious problems. A man has been arrested
as Jean Valjean and is about to be mistakenly condemned for Valjean’s crimes. After a night of
agonizing moral conflict between saving the innocent man and depriving the townspeople who
rely on his prosperity and kindness, Madeleine (Valjean) decides to confess his past. At Arras,
the seat of the trial, he dramatically exonerates the accused. A few days later, he is arrested by
Javert at Fantine's bedside. The shocking scene kills the young woman.
That same night Valjean escapes, but he is quickly recaptured and sent to Toulon, a
military port. One day he saves a sailor about to fall from the rigging. He plunges into the sea
and manages to escape by establishing the belief that he has drowned. He uses his precarious
freedom to go to Montfermeil, the location of the Thénardiers' inn, where the the now-deceased
worker Fantine’s daughter Cosette is being kept. After burying his money in the woods, he frees
Cosette from the Thénardiers' abominable guardianship and takes her into Paris.
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In Paris, he lives like a recluse in a dilapidated tenement, the Gorbeau House, in an
outlying district. In spite of his precautions, however, Javert manages to track him down. Valjean
is forced to flee abruptly. After a hectic chase and imminent capture, he finds a miraculous
refuge in a convent. With the cooperation of the gardener, Fauchelevent, a man whom Valjean
had once saved from the wreckage of a horse cart, Valjean persuades the prioress to take him on
as assistant gardener and to enroll Cosette as a pupil. Valjean and Cosette spend several happy
years in the isolation of the convent.
Marius is a seventeen-year-old who lives with his grandfather, M. Gillenormand, a relic of
the Old Regime. In a nearby town, Georges Pontmercy, Marius' father, a hero of the Napoleonic
wars, lives in retirement. M. Gillenormand, by threatening to disinherit Marius, has forced
Georges Pontmercy to relinquish custody of his son. He has completed the estrangement by
communicating his aversion for Pontmercy to Marius. Consequently, the young man reacts
almost impassively to his father's death. A fortuitous conversation reveals to Marius the depths
of his father's love for him, and indignant at his grandfather's deception, he leaves home.
He takes refuge in the Latin Quarter and falls in with a group of radical students, the
Friends of the A.B.C. Marius, who under his father's posthumous influence has just switched his
allegiance from the monarchy to Napoleon, falls into a state of intellectual bewilderment. Material
difficulties increase his unhappiness. Finally he manages to create a tolerable existence by
finding a modest job, living frugally, and withdrawing into his inner dreams.
His peace is shattered when he falls passionately in love with a beautiful young girl in the
Luxembourg Gardens. She is Jean Valjean's ward, Cosette. Too timid for bold actions, he courts
her silently. He quizzes the doorman where the girl lives and a week later she moves without
leaving an address. For a long time Marius is unable to find a clue to his sweetheart's