Enjolras's lips thin as he considers this. He sets down his pizza, and breathes out.
Quietly, "What does it reveal? Broadly."
He swore to Valjean that he would not speak of any of what he knew about the man's past to anyone, even Valjean, without his word to do so. He doesn't want to say anything of it until he knows that what Bahorel has learned from this book is, indeed, accurate.
The fighters of the barricade died as a public statement, martyrs whose deaths were given to posterity. Their lives too.
M. Valjean gave nothing of the sort. However Hugo learned of his past, if indeed he did, Enjolras finds it difficult to believe that Valjean gave his permission for it to be spread about in a novel; accurate or fictionalized, it's under his own name.
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Quietly, "What does it reveal? Broadly."
He swore to Valjean that he would not speak of any of what he knew about the man's past to anyone, even Valjean, without his word to do so. He doesn't want to say anything of it until he knows that what Bahorel has learned from this book is, indeed, accurate.
The fighters of the barricade died as a public statement, martyrs whose deaths were given to posterity. Their lives too.
M. Valjean gave nothing of the sort. However Hugo learned of his past, if indeed he did, Enjolras finds it difficult to believe that Valjean gave his permission for it to be spread about in a novel; accurate or fictionalized, it's under his own name.