Les Misérables: resumen de Book 2: The Great Bourgeois, Chapter 3
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In Chapter 3, Luc-Esprit recalls youthful encounters with celebrated women and takes pride in his old fashions, while laughing at the names he finds in political news. His frank, often obscene speech connects him to the manners of his century, and his given names reflect his godfather’s prediction of genius.
Qué sucede
- At sixteen, he retreats toward Nahenry, the dancer he loves, when Camargo and Sallé both study him through opera glasses.
- He recalls Guimard’s appearance at Longchamps and enjoys describing the clothes he wears as a young man.
- Madame de Boufflers calls him a delightful fool when he is twenty.
- He laughs over political newspapers, dismisses officials’ names as common, and imagines his own name attached to a minister’s office.
- His coarse speech reflects his century’s informal manners, while his godfather gives him names meant to suggest genius.
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En qué fijarte
The narrator connects Luc-Esprit’s blunt language to a broader contrast in his century’s manners. Elegant expression and obscenity coexist rather than exclude one another.
Comprobación rápida
Why does his godfather give him the names Luc-Esprit?
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