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Created on 2008-09-18 16:24:28 (#16618491), last updated 2009-04-19
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Basic Info| Name: | Javert |
|---|---|
| Location: | France |
Bio"The Asturian peasants are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one pup who is killed by the mother because otherwise it would grow up to devour all the other pups.
Give that male wolf puppy a human face, and you'd have Javert.
[...]
This man was composed of two sentiments, very simple and very good in themselves, relatively speaking, but which he made almost bad by exaggeration: respect for authority, and hatred for revolt; and in his eyes, theft, murder, all crimes were just different sorts of revolt. He wrapped up in a sort of blind and deep faith anyone serving some kind of function within the state apparatus, from the prime minster to the village cop. He heaped contempt, aversion, and disgust on anyone who had once crossed the legal divide into wrongdoing, who even once overstepped the bounds of the law. He was an absolutist and would brook no exceptions. On the one hand, he would say, 'A public servant can't be deceived; a magistrate is never wrong. On the other, he would say, 'That other lot are irredeemably lost. No good can come of them.' [...] He was stoical, serious, austere, a gloom-filled dreamer, humble and haughty like all fanatics. His stare was a corkscrew. It was cold and piercing. His whole life was expressed by two words: watching and waiting."
Javert is a police inspector in 1820s France, in the town of Montreuil-sur-mer. There is a man in Montreuil-sur-mer, a Monsieur Madeleine, who puzzles and offends Javert's instinctive sense for wrongdoers, who tugs at old memories from Javert's time as a guard at the Toulon prison. And there is, too, the matter of Madeleine single-handedly saving a man from being crushed to death by a runaway cart . . .
"I have only ever known one man who could stand in for a jack. And it was that convict."
[Excerpts courtesy of Julie Rose's 2008 translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. This incarnation of Javert hails specifically from the book rather than the musical.]
Inspector Javert is from Les Misérables, and is the property of Victor Hugo. He appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing in![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
milliways_bar, from which no profit whatsoever is being made.
Give that male wolf puppy a human face, and you'd have Javert.
[...]
This man was composed of two sentiments, very simple and very good in themselves, relatively speaking, but which he made almost bad by exaggeration: respect for authority, and hatred for revolt; and in his eyes, theft, murder, all crimes were just different sorts of revolt. He wrapped up in a sort of blind and deep faith anyone serving some kind of function within the state apparatus, from the prime minster to the village cop. He heaped contempt, aversion, and disgust on anyone who had once crossed the legal divide into wrongdoing, who even once overstepped the bounds of the law. He was an absolutist and would brook no exceptions. On the one hand, he would say, 'A public servant can't be deceived; a magistrate is never wrong. On the other, he would say, 'That other lot are irredeemably lost. No good can come of them.' [...] He was stoical, serious, austere, a gloom-filled dreamer, humble and haughty like all fanatics. His stare was a corkscrew. It was cold and piercing. His whole life was expressed by two words: watching and waiting."
Javert is a police inspector in 1820s France, in the town of Montreuil-sur-mer. There is a man in Montreuil-sur-mer, a Monsieur Madeleine, who puzzles and offends Javert's instinctive sense for wrongdoers, who tugs at old memories from Javert's time as a guard at the Toulon prison. And there is, too, the matter of Madeleine single-handedly saving a man from being crushed to death by a runaway cart . . .
"I have only ever known one man who could stand in for a jack. And it was that convict."
[Excerpts courtesy of Julie Rose's 2008 translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. This incarnation of Javert hails specifically from the book rather than the musical.]
Inspector Javert is from Les Misérables, and is the property of Victor Hugo. He appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing in
milliways_bar, from which no profit whatsoever is being made. ConnectExternal Services:
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