Les Misérables, Book 8: Cemeteries Take What Is Entrusted to Them, Chapter 7 summary
Book 8: Cemeteries Take What Is Entrusted to Them, Chapter 7 of 365 · 10 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 7, Fauchelevent steals the gravedigger’s card and frightens him into leaving, giving himself time to open Jean Valjean’s coffin. Jean Valjean revives after fainting, and the two men bury the empty coffin, leave the cemetery, and return the tools while concealing the rescue.
What happens
- Fauchelevent offers wine to delay the gravedigger, but the man keeps throwing earth onto Jean Valjean’s coffin.
- Fauchelevent secretly takes the gravedigger’s card, then warns him about the fine and sends him home to fetch it.
- Fauchelevent opens the coffin and believes Jean Valjean is dead, until fresh air revives him.
- Jean Valjean drinks brandy, helps close and bury the empty coffin, and leaves the cemetery with Fauchelevent.
- Fauchelevent returns the tools to Gribier’s attic and claims he finds the missing card after Gribier leaves.
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