Afterwards Marius runs into her and asks her to help him find Cosette (a better explanation to come in the section about Cosette!) Johnny Flynn breaks hearts as Félix Tholomyès, Fantine’s lover and Cosette’s father, who leaves them high and dry to return home after a brief stay in Paris. My only real complaint is that you don’t see much of Gavroche.Clear as mud? He helps out the town, makes it one of the most prosperous places in the area. Furthermore, since the musical portrays her falling in love with Marius within a day instead of him looking for her and then them meeting at night, their love usually feels forced to me, which is why I think so many people (including me before I read the book) are so anti-Cosette and pro-Eponine. Marius kisses her like he promised, it’s so sad!So Marius gets the address Cosette and Valjean are staying at until they leave for England, so he writes a note to Cosette and has Gavroche deliver it to try and keep him from the barricade. But then he gets the message from Gavroche and finds out that Cosette’s love is on the barricade.

Together, they are the triumvirate of the chief, center, and guide. Of course, Marius’s dad woke up and thought Thenardier had saved his life (More on that later).As far as the Thenardier family, the biggest difference between the book and the musical (and just about every other version) is how many kids they have. All of this comes as a shock to poor Marius, who then decides to cut off ties with his rich grandfather and make it on his own.So he gets the tiny room next to the Thenardier family, and gets by as lawyer.

In the book, after Javert sees Valjean save Fauchlevant from under his cart, he becomes suspicious and thinks he may be Jean Valjean, the criminal who violated parole. Thenardier fought along Marius’s father.

(There’s actually a fantastic scene in the book where she runs into her biological dad, Felix Tholomeyes, but had no idea who he is and thinks he’s just terrible. (No seriously! (In fact, several characters, including Thenardier and Marius’s father fought under Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo-more about that later). But Gavroche isn’t in this version, which in my eyes is unforgiveable.1952 version (Or the second black and white English version).Relatively similar to the 1938 version. Gervais begs Valjean to give him his coin back, but Valjean, not knowing he has the boy’s coin, yells at him to go away. We meet her as a young carefree woman with beautiful hair and teeth, who falls hard for Felix Tholomeyes (Thow-low-mee-aze). He tries to fetch Cosette for her, but the Thenardiers refuse to hand her over. C'est un homme qui profite de la vie, sans vraiment se préoccuper de Fantine après sa "bonne blague". Valjean gives him some money and Thenardier unlocks the gate, but not before ripping a piece of Marius’s shirt off to help identify him later to the police.Marius and Cosette are reunited and married, but all the while Marius is still wondering who saved him from the barricade. We’ll never know for sure what parts are real and what’s fiction, which is both mesmerizing and frustrating as heck.In the book, Victor Hugo takes an extensively long time giving the reader a history lesson of all the French history along with some social commentary. Thenardier is there in the sewers, where he sees Valjean carrying Marius. And Valjean actually keeps Cosette in the know of why they’re running all the time. By then the revolution has begun, but Marius doesn’t know that cause he’s been too busy chatting up Cosette. But there’s still a bit more to tell.So he meets the Bishop, stays overnight, steals the silver, gets caught, Bishop lets him off the hook and gives him the candlesticks.