Volume II, Book 6
Detailed description of Petit-Picpus convent.
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From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Valjean and Cosette take refuge in the convent; Hugo pauses for a long meditation on monastic life as both noble and obsolete.
Volume II, Book 7
'A Parenthesis' - Hugo's philosophical reflection on cloisters.
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