Volume I, Book 5, Chapter 5
Javert's famous portrait: born in prison to a fortune-teller mother, he sees humanity divided absolutely into authority and criminal.
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From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Javert is the rigid embodiment of legal authority, born in a prison, incapable of imagining mercy until Valjean spares his life.
Volume V, Book 4, Chapter 1
'Javert Derailed' - his crisis of conscience after Valjean releases him.
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