The story of Les Miserables is about a man called Jean Valjean, who was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread and served a prison sentence for twenty years. He then was released and broke parole, hunted by a policeman called Javert. Valjean learns that he was responsible for a girl's descent into destitute prostitution and agrees to rear her daughter for her as she dies, but this does not stop Javert. Javert does end up being conflicted, though when Valjean is shown to clearly be a good man, the arrest of whom would be immoral, but Javert's iron devotion to the law demands that he be arrested. Javert's solution is suicide. After that Valjean dies in the arms of his daughter and her husband Marius.
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