Les Miserables

In France, a man named Jean Valjean was released after nineteen years in prison. He had been sentenced to a term of five years because he stole a loaf of bread, but the sentence was later increased because of his attempts to escape. people refused him food and lodging because his yellow passport revealed that he was a former convict. Finally he came to the house of the Bishop, a man who treated him graciously, …

…barricade. Marius and Cosette hurried to Valjean's lodgings, to find him on his deathbed. He died knowing that his children loved him and that all his entangling past was now clear. He gave the bishop's silver candlesticks to Cosette, with his last breath saying that he had spent his life in trying to be worthy of the faith of the Bishop of D-. He was buried in a grave with no name on the stone.