# Jean Valjean — Les Misérables character guide

> Jean Valjean in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, M. Leblanc, the prisoner, the stranger, the man whom all the country of Montreuil-sur-Mer called M. Madeleine

**First appearance:** 0019-i-the-evening-of-a-day-of-walking

## Who they are

Ex-convict who becomes a mayor and factory owner, then devotes his life to raising Cosette.

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