Casualty List

[silverwhistle]

Oh, but it's only too easy to imagine what becomes of Montparnasse. Either he gets chouriné by one of his fellow miscreants, or he gets caught and comes down with a fièvre cérébrale--either way he's going to go meet the meg des megs sooner rather than later.

(Yes, I have been reading Mystères de Paris. *g* Sue had fun with argot too. Chouriné = stabbed, come down with a brain fever = get sentenced to death, meg des megs = god.)

Has anyone compiled a casualty list for Les Misérables? Victor does seem to go in for high death tolls, especially of characters readers love.

[Roses for Ophelia]

Has anyone compiled a casualty list for Les Misérables? Victor does seem to go in for high death tolls, especially of characters readers love.

BODY COUNT

The Bishop—Dies of Natural Causes
Jean Valjean—Dies of Natural Causes/Grief/Broken Heart
Fantine—Dies of unnamed disease
Favorite-Fate Not Mentioned
Zephine-FNM
Dahlia-FNM
Blanchville- FNM
Listolier-FNM
Fameuil-FNM
Tholomyes—Becomes successful lawyer. Lives.
Cosette-Lives
Mme. Thenardier—Dies in prison
Éponine—Dies on barricades
Azelma-Goes to America. Lives.
M. Thenardier—Goes to America. Lives
Bamatabois--FNM
Fauchelevent—Dies of Natural Causes.
Javert- Death by suicide.
Champmathieu—FNM.
Gavroche—Dies on Barricades.
Marius-Lives
M. Gillenormad—Lives, but probably doesn’t have too long.
Mlle. Gillenormand—Lives.
Georges Pontmercy—Dies of some disease.
M. Mabeauf—Dies on barricades.
Mere Plutarque—FNM
Lesgle—dies on Barricades
Courfeyrac—Dies on barricades
Enjolras—Shot by national guard
Combeferre—Dies on barricades
Jehan Prouvaire—Shot by firing squad.
Joly—Dies on Barricades
Bahorel—First to die on barricades.
Feuilly—Dies on barricades
Grantaire—Shot by national guard.
Babet—FNM.
Guelemer-FNM
Clasquesous—Shot by Enjolras.
Montparnasse-FNM
Brujon—FNM
Older Thenardier Boy—Lives
Younger Thenardier Boy—Lives

Did I leave any major or minor characters out? So, the body count is…20 dead by the end of the book. And I’m not counting people who show up just to drop dead, like Mere Innocent. Out of the major characters, only M. Thenardier, Azelma, Cosette, Marius and Gillenormand live.

[MmeBahorel]

Mme Victurnien - FNM
Sister Simplice - FNM
Mlle Myriel - FNM
Mme Magloire - FNM

(Uhm, who else has lines?)

[Aurelia Combeferre]

You forgot:

Theodule: Lives
Magnon: In prison after the raid on the Rue de Clocheperce, FNM
Mamselle Miss: In prison, FNM

[hazellwood]

Petit Gervais, FNM. How many characters are there in this thing?!

[silverwhistle]

Petit Gervais, FNM. How many characters are there in this thing?!

Casualty List as a new thread, anyone?

[Frédérique]

(Uhm, who else has lines?)

The three gendarmes who arrest Valjean? Well, only one or two of them have text. Still:

Three gendarmes - FNM
(and the people in Arras and on the way are all FNM as well)

And Irma Boissy has a line. Irma Boissy - FNM
The Changer - FNM (lives and thrives, presumably)
Toussaint - FNM (lives, presumably)
Basque - lives
Nicolette - lives

Also, I think Mme Hucheloup, Matelote, Gibelotte all live? Or ... don't they? Louison lives/FNMs, certainly.
(Also, Musichetta and Bahorel's unnamed mistress and everybody else's 'more or less' mistresses - FNM.)

AND THE ONE-LEGGED VETERAN IN THE LUXEMBOURG. FNM. And ... hey, the owner of Courfeyrac's hotel actually has a line, doesn't he? FNM. And there are quite a few more criminals who are FNM. (Okay, this is getting silly.)

[Euphrasie]

The nuns in the convent? Also, the bourgeois and his son are FNM. Whoops. (Ma Bougon wasn't mentioned yet, was she?)

[Hannah]

The regicide atheist guy at the beginning dies 8Db (WHO ELSE LOVES HIM? IT CAN'T JUST BE ME)

[hazellwood]

The woman Fantine, uhm, interacts with in the beginning whose name I forget. (Or is that just a thing from a movie and I'm confusing my versions. Uhm.) Has she already been mentioned?

Either way, FNM. I think.

[Frédérique]

The regicide atheist guy at the beginning dies 8Db (WHO ELSE LOVES HIM? IT CAN'T JUST BE ME)

I do! G.!

hazellwood, you mean Marguerite?

[hazellwood]

hazellwood, you mean Marguerite?

Yes, yes I do. Jesus, I need to reread the Brick...

[Frédérique]

Don't we all, all the time?

... okay, there have got to be more. Um, lots of people die at Waterloo? And lots of Waterloo people die later? Ney is shot through the heart in the Jardin du Luxembourg (AND THAT IS TOTALLY WHY MARIUS FALLS IN LOVE THERE)?

Orang-utan who disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800 - dies; skeleton found in the sewers

[Hannah]

The regicide atheist guy at the beginning dies 8Db (WHO ELSE LOVES HIM? IT CAN'T JUST BE ME)

I do! G.!

Why am I not surprised

He is an awesome badass guy, though. I love his convo w/ the bishop c:

[hazellwood]

The unnamed barricade men/boys who say one meaningful thing and then disappear forever because nobody knew their names - Died at barricade, most likely.

Okay, this is getting ridiculous.