enjolrasoftheday:

Les Mis + The Onion Headlines (2/?)

annaobyrne:

les mis modern aesthetics // fantine

fantine was beautiful, and remained chaste as long as she could. she was a lovely blonde with splendid teeth. she had gold and pearls for her dowry, but her gold was her head of hair and her pearls were in her mouth. she worked to keep herself alive. then, also to keep herself alive, she l o v e d, for the heart has its own hunger. (x)

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“Remind Jean that he is loved” kisses (with lots of huggles!)

“Welcome home from work” kisses (Javert has to bend down a bit)

“Treasure Fantine” kisses (when they’re out in the town)

nikoleto:

Remember, we love you.

I reeeeeaaaally wanted to draw something for Les Mis Rare Pairs Week – so here’s my favourite OT3: Valvertine ^_^

(Psst! Click the doodles to see my secret comments on all my posts ^_^)

youusedtobemyhero:

sorelli:

Les Miserables

this is the most intense Les Mis gif set I’ve seen to date.

In regards to Hugo and his name puns….would you be able to make a masterlist of all of them? (the known ones at least). if you have the time :3

pilferingapples:

yourcouragetothestickingplace:

vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo:

robertawickham:

pilferingapples:

WHOOOWOW that  is a big order 
But here, I have done what I can !

Notes: This is more or less in the order of character appearance.I’ve only included puns and references , not direct translations or name meanings (like “Felix” meaning “lucky”).  I also haven’t sourced everything, because then I would really take forever answering this’; I’ve tried to get SOME sources linked in; if there’s any source someone’s especially curious about, let me know and I’ll add it. 
ALSO I am in NO way saying this is a complete list of references or puns. I know right now Im’,  missing some really good references about Fantine and Eponine!   It is possible it will never be complete. But if anyone would like to help complete it, and sees a reference or a joke I’ve missed, please message me and let me know!  I want to know about these things too! 
Anyway. Here goes: 

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This is great!  Fantine, I’m pretty sure, is derivative of enfant or enfantin (child or childish).  She’s a stray kid on the streets, people just call her “kid”, eventually some version of that becomes her name. 

Éponine is the French version of Eponina, wife of Julius Sabinus, who was a leader of the Gauls.  Sabinus led a revolt against the Roman Empire, lost, and became a fugitive.  Eponina visited him in secret, and sought a pardon for him, but he was caught and executed.  Eponina then demanded the Roman emperor Vespasian execute her too, and he obliged.  The story became popular in late 18th and 19th century France, and inspired many creative works, including a novel, plays, and an opera.  Wikipedia (linked above) says its appeal was due to its connotations of “wifely virtue, patriotism and anti-imperialism.”  So, a really obvious reference there!  There’s probably something subversive about Hugo applying the story of a virtuous Roman matron to a girl who’d be considered a common criminal in her society, too.

Oooh! Yay for all of the puns! And other origins.

Oh I can help with the Enjolras bit! It’s originally an Occitan name so the actual meaning comes from Occitan enjeura = to terrify. But it also happens to sound a LOT like the French word enjôler = to charm. Also the Enj part is pronounced like ange = angel.

In other words:

“Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome.”

Victor Hugo you cheaky devil you.

As for the Jeanne part… I really doubt that. Enj is the phonological palindrome of Jean (this was pointed out by the annotated edition of Les Mis that I own) but to have anything to do with Jeanne there would have to be an n sound somewhere. (I don’t even think the Jean link is very likely. But it would make it sound pretty funny if his first name was Jean which it probably is let’s face it.)

I don’t know about Courf puns but I do know that there’s a castle called Fayrac (pronounced exactly the same as Feyrac) in

Castelnaud-la-Chapelle in Dordogne and another one in

Beynac-et-Cazenac and possibly even another one in La Roque-Gageac. EDIT: Or… in fact more probably now that I found all these three communes on the map: it’s the same castle.

Also cour means either courtyard or court so both relate to a castle. In any case I’ve been told by at least two actual French people that it’s a very obviously Gascon name… if you ever wondered which area of France Courfeyrac was from (aside from just generally the south).

So, I’ve been digging around about the Fayrac castle. The castle was a part of the lands of the comte de Périgord.

The comtes de Périgord belonged to the House of Talleyrand (hence the name de Talleyrand-Périgord).

If Courf’s using the castle name as territorial designation/surname, then he’s related to Talleyrand

#let me repeat  #courfeyrac is related to talleyrand  #i don’t even know if that’s better or worse than my headcanon of courf being lafayette’s reckless reprobate of a grandson  #who used to idolise him as a child then slowly grew disillusioned with his grandfather over time  #culminating in courf cutting off all their ties after what he did in ‘30  #but a courfeyrac related to talleyrand  #this opens a whole new can of worms #which i do actually want to touch with a ten-foot metal pole  #maybe that’s where courf got his thing with the ladies?  #but i digress  #because their political opinions are so vastly different  #that is  #if talleyrand even has a permanent political opinion  #jesus  #this is looking to be more promising than a laf/courf familial dynamic  #les mis

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VITAL UPDATE

vanille-francaise:

Dasha Kuritsyna as Fantine 

photo and processing by Anna Providence

makeup by scenographe

Fantine’s dress by me 

for the Les Miserables Team at Fandom Combat 2015

argents:

“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him—he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.” [x]

pilferingapples:

ramnieto13:

So this is my first on colored pencils and I seriously don’t know how I was able to do this using Faber Castell

WOAH this looks fantastic! Her expression is killer and your shading is excellent!

annaobyrne:

les mis modern aesthetics // fantine

fantine was beautiful, and remained chaste as long as she could. she was a lovely blonde with splendid teeth. she had gold and pearls for her dowry, but her gold was her head of hair and her pearls were in her mouth. she worked to keep herself alive. then, also to keep herself alive, she l o v e d, for the heart has its own hunger. (x)

lesavengers:

Characters of Les Misérables {@lesavengers}