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Les Misérables: resumen de Book 2: The Great Bourgeois, Chapter 1

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In Chapter 1, the narrator introduces M. Gillenormand, a man over ninety whose strong health, pride, and habits mark him as a survivor of another age. His treatment of his household and his remarks about women and civilization establish his temper, vanity, and outlook.

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  1. Old residents of several streets remember M. Gillenormand fondly.
  2. The narrator presents him in 1831 as a vigorous bourgeois over ninety who retains all his teeth.
  3. Gillenormand blames his withdrawal from women on insufficient money and dreams of wealth to spend on mistresses.
  4. He strikes people who contradict him, scolds his unmarried daughter, and hits his servants.
  5. He trusts a jealous barber to shave him and boasts about his own insight.
  6. His sayings compare civilized behavior with animal violence and the consumption of men.

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