A google maps view of les Misérables...

Gargamel · A google maps view of les Misérables...

Hi all... ever been to Paris? Going there one day? What about see the actual places where story takes place?

As I lived a few years in Paris, I think I could help some of you to locate the actual places where the events takes place! Correct me if you think I am wrong! Wink

Here we go, from above! Very Happy

6 place des vosges (not related to phe plot, but it's Hugo's house Wink

Fantine

Very nice. Thank you. Paris sure has changed and modernised a lot.

Orestes Fasting

That is awesome. Very Happy

Place Edmond Rostand, formerly the Place Saint-Michel, site of the Café Musain:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=Place+Edmond+Rostand,+75006+Paris,+Paris,+Ile-de-France,+France&sll=48.846686,2.336397&sspn=0.005316,0.014977&ie=UTF8&cd=1&mpnum=0&ll=48.847399,2.340356&spn=0.002658,0.007489&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr&om=0

Montreuil-sur-Mer:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=montreuil+sur+mer&sll=48.847399,2.340356&sspn=0.002658,0.007489&ie=UTF8&ll=50.46432,1.76307&spn=0.010285,0.029955&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=0

Gargamel

Cool Orestes... The café Musain is very close to the Luxembourg garden!

here is what I guessed could be the last remainings of the prison in Toulon, where Jean Valjean is at the beguining of the story. it is that kind of square building by the water near the boats:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=Toulon,+France&ie=UTF8&ll=43.117948,5.928991&spn=0.001887,0.005386&t=h&z=18&om=1
next stop: Digne, with Monseigneur Myriel:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=digne,+France&ie=UTF8&ll=44.090714,6.231587&spn=0.007428,0.021544&t=h&z=16&om=1

Fantine

I'm going to Digne in a week or so Smile

Gargamel

LesMisForever

I went to Paris few months ago, and i have to say that i am confused about Rue Mondetour.

It looked SOO small. Here it looks much, much bigger.
It took me ages to find it. Maybe i missed something.

Aimee

Tha is really good, I'm going to look at it 'live' now, thanks for the idea. Smile

Gargamel

Gargamel

ok! now let's continue if you are still interested!

Museum of the sewers. You can see the entrance. It is a small octagon between the quai d'Orsay and the river.
Valjean and Marius get out of the sewers in front of the "Gros-caillou". The "Gros-caillou" is on the right from the entrance of the museum (see "Port du gros caillou"). We can guess he was where there is now the boarding of the "Bateaux-mouche", across the river. The novel says he could see the Iéna bridge on his right and the Invalides bridge, wich is the case. At that time the Alma bridge didn't exist. Valjean meets Thenardier and Javert there:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=pl+R%C3%A9sistance,+75007+Paris,+Paris,+Ile-de-France,+France&sll=48.858853,2.347005&sspn=0.082219,0.159645&ie=UTF8&ll=48.862479,2.302422&spn=0.001285,0.003374&t=h&z=19&om=0
(for those who like sordid details, Lady Diana died in the tunnel just above the Alma bridge...)

Let's think about how it all happened: Valjean, Javert and Marius are on the barricade (we saw where it is). Valjean let Javert go. He then took Marius down the sewers. We know now where he came out (quite a looooong way!!!). He met Thenardier and Javert (who was after Thenardier). They then go to Marius's grandfather's house (6 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, we've seen it). Then Valjean asks to javert to let him go home before sending him to jail. Valjean wanted to tell Cosette where Marius was. We go to 40 rue des Archives (7 rue de L’homme armé in the novel). When Valjean came out of there, Javert was gone. He was heading to the river, walked by the river. He stopped "place du chatelet". He jumped in the rapids (now gone) between the "pont au change" and the "pont Notre Dame" (not from the bridge!)

More to come later! Wink

Orestes Fasting

Would anyone be interested in me adding a sort of tour guide section to my Les Mis site? I visited a lot of the places in this thread over the summer, so I have a nice collection of photos, maps, tourism brochures, and random trivia about the changes these places have undergone.

It would include:

* Montreuil-sur-Mer (Spectacle Son et Lumière, guided tours, related places, etc)
* Montfermeil (Fontaine Jean Valjean)
* The site of the barricade (Rue Rambuteau/Rue Mondétour)
* Javert's jump into the Seine (Quay between the Pont au Change and the Pont Notre-Dame)
* The Café Musain (Place Edmond Rostand)
* Rue Plumet (Rue Oudinot)
* Napoléon's Elephant (Place de la Bastille)
* The Jardin du Luxembourg
* Marius and Cosette's wedding (Eglise Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis)
* The Gorbeau Tenement (50-52 Blvd de l'Hôpital)
* The Field of the Lark (Rue Corvisart, Rue du Champ de l'Alouette)
* Rue de l'Homme-Armé (Rue des Archives)
* M. Gillenormand's apartment (Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire)
* Marius' lodgings with Courfeyrac (Rue de la Verrerie)
* Thénardier's escape from La Force (Rue de Sévigné, Rue Pavée)
* The Sewer Museum
* Saint-Merry
* The Hugo Museum (6 Place des Vosges)
* The Panthéon

herkind

Yes, definitely.

I only got to see the Pantheon, catacombes and the jardin de Luxembourg when I was in France. (Well, I saw lot's of other things too but they weren't Les Mis related.)

Quique

That would be excellent, Orestes!

lesmisloony

Hmm, I really like that, right near where Marius and Courfy lived together, there's a street that's more or less "Bad Boys Street," according to my own sloppy translation.

Catherine

oooh that'd be great Orestes! I would only get to see a few though, because I'm only going for a weekend and I don't wanna drag my family around everything if they're only gonna be there for two days.

April in Paris! I'm so excited!!

Fantine

You should do that, Orestes Smile

It would be fun and I consider your site to be one of the most interesting ones out there. (If not the most interesting one).

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A google maps view of les Misérables...