After four years of being friends with a revolutionary, after seeing abject poverty first hand, after going through the barricade, he still reacts to Valjean's story like a conservative bourgeois.
I'm curious now what the general attitude towards common criminals was among the republicans of his time. From what I can remember earlier on during the French Revolution there was a strong judgmental strand among many radicals towards them, but perhaps in the 1820s and 1830s things had changed.
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Date: 2014-05-03 03:47 pm (UTC)I'm curious now what the general attitude towards common criminals was among the republicans of his time. From what I can remember earlier on during the French Revolution there was a strong judgmental strand among many radicals towards them, but perhaps in the 1820s and 1830s things had changed.