snakelorax:

I don’t think people appreciate enough in les mis how the people threw their furniture out the window to build the barricade shut back in the day to poor people furniture was the most important thing they were the literal manifestation of all their savings, what you sold in hard times to make ends meet because credit wasn’t a thing yet and the furniture was worth a lot of money, so people throwing their chairs out the window was how people who couldn’t fight in the revolution gave their everything and people should recognize that more