If think you're right - ag is probably peasant knowledge. Everything pre-1815 tends to muddle into "plot-useful background" in my head.
While a vision of Fantine and Valjean rescuing Cosette and going on to have hundreds of fat children is charming, I also sort of want Hugo's inevitable tragic ending where Fantine's frivolous materialism causes the family's destruction. Because this is Hugo, it will definitely end badly. (Though I would also not be adverse to the slightly less tragic take where Fantine thinks Valjean's lost his fortune and they're contriving an honest living in Paris, and going to services where Valjean's eyes are on God and Fantine's are on the parishioners and Cosette, and at some point there's making out... why am I thinking these thoughts?)
I will not let little digressions about convents and religion stop me. Not when there is Fauchelevent to entertain me!
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While a vision of Fantine and Valjean rescuing Cosette and going on to have hundreds of fat children is charming, I also sort of want Hugo's inevitable tragic ending where Fantine's frivolous materialism causes the family's destruction. Because this is Hugo, it will definitely end badly. (Though I would also not be adverse to the slightly less tragic take where Fantine thinks Valjean's lost his fortune and they're contriving an honest living in Paris, and going to services where Valjean's eyes are on God and Fantine's are on the parishioners and Cosette, and at some point there's making out... why am I thinking these thoughts?)
I will not let little digressions about convents and religion stop me. Not when there is Fauchelevent to entertain me!