Les Misérables, Book 10: June 5, 1832, Chapter 3 summary
Book 10: June 5, 1832, Chapter 3 of 365 · 9 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 3, General Lamarque’s funeral brings armed workers, political groups, and anxious spectators into Paris streets already prepared for revolt, while the government deploys troops. A red emblem inflames the procession, and an uncertain confrontation followed by gunshots turns public mourning into widespread fighting.
What happens
- Lamarque’s death gives a focus to unrest in Paris, where workers gather weapons and revolutionary organizers assemble supporters.
- His funeral procession crosses the city under military escort, accompanied by a restless crowd and watched by heavily deployed troops.
- Threats and scattered violence accompany the procession before Lafayette addresses the mourners near the Austerlitz Bridge.
- A mounted man displays a red emblem, and young men pull Lamarque’s hearse and Lafayette’s carriage in different directions.
- Dragoons encounter the crowd; three shots kill two people and wound an officer, though the immediate cause of the confrontation remains uncertain.
- Cavalry charges, gunfire spreads, and fighters begin a barricade as the riot spreads across Paris.
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