Les Misérables · Character

Bahorel

A dandyish student revolutionary with a taste for adventure.

minor

First appearance: book iii in the year 1817

Bahorel shows up with force in Marius' Astonishments. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Bahorel declares 'Down with tragedy dear to the bourgeois!' during a discussion about theatre.

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In Marius' Astonishments: Bahorel declares 'Down with tragedy dear to the bourgeois!' during a discussion about theatre. Later, in The Back Room of the Café Musain: Playing dominoes with Joly and offering advice on…

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Corinthe café staff and regulars

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Marius' Astonishments
Bahorel declares 'Down with tragedy dear to the bourgeois!' during a discussion about theatre.
The Back Room of the Café Musain
Playing dominoes with Joly and offering advice on love and elegance.
A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
Listed among the principal members of the Friends of the A.B.C.; no further description provided in this chapter.
Enlargement of Horizon
Engages in the banter and assumes a characteristic posture, but stops to listen when the debate intensifies.
Marius' Astonishments
Bahorel calls for the abolition of classic tragedy, sparking a debate with Combeferre.
The Back Room of the Café Musain
Playing dominoes with Joly, Bahorel offers worldly advice on love and elegance, boasting of his own peaceful arrangement with his mistress.
Enlargement of Horizon
Engages in the quips and assumes a characteristic posture before the debate intensifies.
Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
Implied as a member of the student groups meeting at the Café Musain and the Corinthe.
Enjolras and His Lieutenants
Tasked with visiting the Estrapade.
Enjolras and His Lieutenants
Sent to the Estrapade area.
III: The Beginning of Shadow
Exchanges a remark with Courfeyrac about Marius's behavior.
The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
Wears a scarlet waistcoat, tears down the archbishop's charge, and uses the Latin word 'Hercle', gaining Gavroche's admiration.
An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
Expresses ecstasy over the barricade, shouting about the street's appearance.
IV: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
Expresses ecstasy over the barricade, shouting about the street's appearance.
I: The Flag: Act First
Among the forty-three insurgents kneeling inside the large barricade.
IV: The Barrel of Powder
Mentioned as having been killed.
I: The Flag: Act First
Among the forty-three insurgents kneeling inside the large barricade, ready to fire.
The Barrel of Powder
Killed in the combat, mentioned as part of the scene's gravity.

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