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"Those are rare who fall without becoming degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables."

#OTD in 1833.

Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet begin a fifty-year affair. This is recorded in his novel Les Misérables (1862) as the date of Marius and Cosette's wedding night (Part V, Book 6, Chapter 1).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables

At PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/135
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17494

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