lacommunarde:

combeferre:

I won’t accept “Enjolras DIIIIED for NOOOOOTHING he was SOOO YOUNG” when Victor Hugo wrote a novel that inspired two dudes to write a musical where Enjolras’s featured song has been used as a protest song across the world for decades now

“Enjolras died for nothing” – forty years later, due to the outpouring of support around Les Miserables, the Third Republic would be formed and support would be strong enough to get in to stay until the Fourth Republic.

“Enjolras died for nothing” – people read the barricade section of Les Miserables on the barricades of the Paris Commune during the Bloody Week to give them bravery and dignity after in became clear they were likely to die. (And l’Internationale was written by a surviving, jailed Communard, so how many Revolutions, Leftist and Labor Movements, etc have used l’Internationale as their song? written by one of the Communards who read the barricade scene with tears in their eyes for bravery when fighting on the barricades)

“Enjolras died for nothing” – students read Les Miserables in mai ‘68

“Enjolras died for nothing” – the letters at the formation of the UN quote Les Miserables and at least one of them in Tamiment Library and Robert F Wagner Labor Archives quotes Enjolras’ “Horizon that is Visible from the Top of the Barricade” speech.