Les Misérables, Chapter 3 summary
Chapter 3 of 365 · Book 1: A Just Man · 4 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 3, the Bishop travels through his difficult diocese despite limited money, visiting communities on foot, by wagon, or by donkey. He answers criticism with humility and teaches through examples of neighboring communities, presenting charity, fair dealing, and shared education as practices people can follow.
What happens
- The Bishop continues his pastoral journeys across a mountainous diocese, sometimes traveling without the two women when conditions are too difficult.
- At Senez, the mayor disapproves of his donkey, and the Bishop explains that necessity rather than vanity determines his transport.
- He praises Briançon’s help for poor people and Embrun’s communal harvesting for an ill father.
- He presents Devolny’s inheritance customs and Queyras’s unpaid settlement of disputes as examples for divided or litigious communities.
- He praises Queyras’s traveling teachers and uses brief parables whenever suitable examples are unavailable.
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