Les Misérables: resumen de Book 3: In 1817, Chapter 5

Qué sucede

1. After their ride, the eight companions settle into a crowded public house and eat together.
2. Their dinner approaches its end as crowds, carriages, and mounted guards fill the sunny streets outside.
3. Girls sing a Bourbon song, while Sunday visitors play games, drink, and display royalist emblems.
4. The narrator quotes Anglès’s report, which dismisses the people of Paris as harmless and physically weak.
5. The narrator counters that Parisians can become fierce defenders of their country and liberty, then returns to the diners.

En qué fijarte

The animal contrast challenges Anglès’s confidence. It introduces the narrator’s argument that an apparently idle population can become a powerful political force.

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