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1  She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
2  No one in Montfermeil thought any more about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ...
3  They managed to obtain the address: Monsieur, Monsieur Thenardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
4  If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three years, she would not have recognized her child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
5  There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6  He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
7  Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
8  Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the forest as a hiding-place for his treasures.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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9  An old gossip was found, who made the trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thenardiers, and said on her return: "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
10  She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
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11  There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Siberia.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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12  Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain conjectures of the indictment.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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13  Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that her guess was correct: the doctor approved.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
14  Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
15  Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in what was then known as the Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris, the "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, in the alley Boulanger.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
16  Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had "peculiar ways" in the forest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ...
17  Some pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but Montfermeil was none the less a village.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
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