Jean Valjean
Also known as: Prisoner 24601, Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent
Prisoner 24601, a convict redeemed by a bishop's mercy who spends the rest of his life as mayor, fugitive, and father to Cosette. Hugo's whole argument about grace lives inside this one man.
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Other Les Mis Characters
Enjolras
12k works
The marble-souled leader of Les Amis de l'ABC, a student revolutionary who believes in the republic the way saints believe in heaven. He dies at the barricade holding hands with the cynic who believed only in him.
Grantaire
11k works
Les Amis' drunken skeptic, an artist who scoffs at every cause and worships Enjolras as the only thing worth believing in. 'Permets-tu?' before the firing squad is one sentence that launched ten thousand fics.
Javert
5k works
The inspector born in a jail who built his soul out of the law, pursuing Valjean across decades until a single act of mercy breaks his worldview in half. The Seine fic, fix-it and otherwise, is its own subgenre.
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Jean Valjean appears in 5k+ works on AO3, making them one of the most popular characters in the Les Mis fandom. You can browse all Jean Valjean fanfiction using the Fanfict Reader app.
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The most popular Jean Valjean ships include Javert/Jean Valjean. These pairings feature prominently in AO3 fanfiction.
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