Jean Valjean

Yeah, I got to bring him on.

Now you just took it from me like Valjean stole that bread.

Oh, are we going to? Oh, no.

Colin's looking in like, I stole a piece of bread.

He turned quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed steadily at him and added, still in a low voice, Stop! That's enough of that sort of talk.

Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is Jean Valjean.

Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you come in, I suspected something.

I sent to the town hall, and this was the reply that was sent to me.

The bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man.

As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the newcomer what he desired, the man rested both hands on his staff directed his gaze at the old man and the two women and without waiting for the bishop to speak he said in a loud voice See here.

My name is Jean Valjean.

I am a convict from the galleys.

Old charity-monger, get out with you.

Are you a hosier, Mr. Millionaire? You give away your stock and trade to the poor holy man.

What? bosh mary andrew ah and you don't recognize me well i recognize you that i do i recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here ha you'll find out presently that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself in that fashion into people's houses under the pretext that they are taverns in wretched clothes with the air of a poor man to whom one would give a sue, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods.

And you can't call things quits, because afterwards, when people are ruined, you bring a coat that is too large and too miserable hospital blaggots.

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I was like, okay, Jean Valjean.

Yeah.

It could be worse.

But you remember it enough for me not to spoil it, right? Yes.

30 seconds forward if you Les Mis.

I love when he's so conflicted about Jean Valjean that he just has to take his own life.

He takes a gun and he puts it in his mouth and he kills himself.

It's an archaic form of Hebrew parallelism, Hebrew poetry.

And, but like people like Victor Hugo, you know, who gave us characters like Jean Valjean and Quasimodo said, it is the most majestic piece of literature in the world.

So when you get guys like that, noting that Job, which is a tedious book, But it covers one of the most important topics, and that is human suffering and the reason for it.

It's worth a dive into.

Dean, what do you reckon?

I'm called Dean, but my mother's called Jean.

So they had the bright idea of almost calling me Jean.

So thank God they didn't.

That's just a lifetime of bullying.

It's French, no? Jean Valjean.

I can't imagine.

Sorry, I don't know where he's from, but you're just somewhere in the

One of our finest musical theater actors.

He's playing, I believe, Jean Valjean in Les Mis at the Lyric this year.

One of our best guys.

And he came back from Broadway.