Javert bound to the post.
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
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In the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop.
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
(This barricade just *has* to be for edwarddespard.)
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They crossed the abyss at one bound.
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
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The Thenardier woman snatched up an enormous paving-stone.
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
The Thenardier woman had wound her hands in his hair.
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
… And allowed a view of three men clad in blue linen blouses…
Gustave Brion, from Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, Paris, 1867.
(Source: archive.org)
Radoub.
Gustave Brion, from Ninety-three vol. 1, by Victor Hugo, London, New York, 1889.
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Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Gustave Brion, from Cent dessins : extraits des oeuvres de Victor Hugo (One hundred drawings from the works of Victor Hugo), Paris, not dated (circa 1900?).
Via archive.org.
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Agostino Lacurci. La Finta Nonna.
Illustration for the novel La finta nonna, contained in Fiabe Italiane
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