Les Miserables | Marius: Summary and Analysis

The Grand Bourgeois - Summary
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M. Gillenormand: an elderly bourgeois gentleman

Mademoiselle Gillenormand the Elder: oldest daughter of Gillenormand

Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand: Mademoiselle’s nephew

M. Gillenormand is 90 years old. He treats his 50-year-old daughter like a child and sometimes beats his domestics. He is “truly a man of another age — the genuine bourgeois of the eighteenth century, a very perfect specimen, a little haughty.”

Gillenormand’s daughters are ten years apart in age. The younger daughter is happy, gay, and...

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