# Joly — Les Misérables character guide

> Joly in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

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

## Who they are

A hypochondriac medical student and revolutionary.

## In the story

### [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.

### [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 Bahorel and discussing his love for Musichetta.

### [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.

### [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 Bahorel, Joly discusses his romantic troubles with Musichetta, lamenting her sulking and his own lovesickness.

### [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)

Assigned to Dupuytren's clinical lecture to feel the pulse of the medical school.

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

Sent to Dupuytren's clinical lecture to assess the medical school's pulse.

### [Preliminary Gayeties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/ii-preliminary-gayeties)

Drinks with Bossuet and Grantaire; expresses reluctance to go out in the rain.

### [Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-night-begins-to-descend-upon-grantaire)

Comments on the weather and kisses Mame Hucheloup's neck.

### [Preliminary Gayeties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/ii-preliminary-gayeties)

Drinks with Bossuet and Grantaire; initially reluctant to go out in the rain; eventually stays in the wine-shop.

### [Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/iii-night-begins-to-descend-upon-grantaire)

Observes from the window and makes a pun about catching gold, then kisses Mame Hucheloup's neck.

### [VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/vii-the-man-recruited-in-the-rue-des-billettes)

Among the insurgents who gather after Javert is tied to the post.

### [VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/vii-the-man-recruited-in-the-rue-des-billettes)

Among those who come running to see Javert bound to the post.

### [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.

### [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.

### [Foot to Foot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/xxii-foot-to-foot)

Previously part of the center defense that gave way during the assault.

### [Foot to Foot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/xxii-foot-to-foot)

Previously held the center of the barricade before it gave way.

## Links

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