Combeferre sees Enjolras's look go to the book. "I don't know if you heard about this at all," he says. "But Victor Hugo--you remember him--wrote this book, and we feature in it. All nine of us."

"In some detail," he adds. "We are not the main focus. Monsieur Fauchelevent from the barricade is the closest thing to that. But we're named, and Hugo describes the barricade."