Example sentences for: misérables

How can you use “misérables” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was the cult of Napoleon in the 19 th century, a young man's craze that went on for generations--the craze that Stendhal described in his character Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black and Victor Hugo in his character Marius in Les Misérables . In the 19 th century, intelligent people in France knew perfectly well that Napoleon had embodied the worst aspects of the French Revolution, had betrayed the revolution's democratic ideals, and had spread death and fire from Spain to Moscow.

  • Les Misérables

  • Victor Hugo, in exile in Guernsey, was writing Les Misérables, while Baudelaire was working on Les Fleurs du Mal, and Offenbach was composing jolly operettas, such as La Belle Hélène.

  • Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, lived at number 6, now a museum housing many of his manuscripts, artifacts, and wonderful drawings.

  • Les Misérables , the musical based on Hugo's novel of the same title, opened in France in 1980 and, in a somewhat different English-language version, has been playing on Broadway and touring the United States for 10 years now, with no sign of disappearing soon.


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