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  • It was an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said “Bonaparte.”

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Prouvaire, the masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of the Rue de

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and of

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following them.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty years old taken together.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a royal head, that of Andre

    Les Miserables 2008

  • They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty years old taken together.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

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