# Little Gervais — Les Misérables character guide

> Little Gervais in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Gervais

**First appearance:** 0031-xiii-little-gervais

## Who they are

A young Savoyard boy from whom Jean Valjean steals a coin.

## In the story

### [VI: Jean Valjean](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/vi-jean-valjean)

Mentioned indirectly through the context of the theft of a loaf of bread, though not present in this chapter.

### [Little Gervais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/xiii-little-gervais)

A young Savoyard boy whose forty-sous coin is stolen by Jean Valjean; he pleads for its return.

### [Little Gervais](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/xiii-little-gervais)

A young Savoyard boy whose forty-sous coin is stolen by Jean Valjean; he bravely confronts Valjean but is driven away.

### [Book II: The Ship Orion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/les_miserables_se/chapters/book-ii-the-ship-orion)

A young Savoyard boy who is the victim of Valjean's theft of a forty-sou coin.

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