# Bahorel — Les Misérables character guide

> Bahorel in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0032-book-iii-in-the-year-1817

## Who they are

A dandyish student revolutionary with a taste for adventure.

## In the story

### [Marius' Astonishments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-marius-astonishments)

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

### [The Back Room of the Café Musain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-the-back-room-of-the-caf-musain)

Playing dominoes with Joly and offering advice on love and elegance.

### [A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/i-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/v-enlargement-of-horizon)

Engages in the banter and assumes a characteristic posture, but stops to listen when the debate intensifies.

### [Marius' Astonishments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-marius-astonishments)

Bahorel calls for the abolition of classic tragedy, sparking a debate with Combeferre.

### [The Back Room of the Café Musain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-the-back-room-of-the-caf-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/v-enlargement-of-horizon)

Engages in the quips and assumes a characteristic posture before the debate intensifies.

### [Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/v-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/vi-enjolras-and-his-lieutenants)

Tasked with visiting the Estrapade.

### [Enjolras and His Lieutenants](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/vi-enjolras-and-his-lieutenants)

Sent to the Estrapade area.

### [III: The Beginning of Shadow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-the-beginning-of-shadow)

Exchanges a remark with Courfeyrac about Marius's behavior.

### [The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-an-attempt-to-console-the-widow-hucheloup)

Expresses ecstasy over the barricade, shouting about the street's appearance.

### [I: The Flag: Act First](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/i-the-flag-act-first)

Among the forty-three insurgents kneeling inside the large barricade.

### [IV: The Barrel of Powder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-the-barrel-of-powder)

Mentioned as having been killed.

### [I: The Flag: Act First](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/i-the-flag-act-first)

Among the forty-three insurgents kneeling inside the large barricade, ready to fire.

### [The Barrel of Powder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iv-the-barrel-of-powder)

Killed in the combat, mentioned as part of the scene's gravity.

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