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https://barricadescon.com/schedule-2026/

There is a £12 registration fee, and registration ends on 24 July. For those who sign up, recorded sessions are available online for a fortnight after the convention ends. 

https://barricadescon.com/schedule-2026/

There is a £12 registration fee, and registration ends on 24 July. For those who sign up, recorded sessions are available online for a fortnight after the convention ends. 

As my post yesterday about my new book on Les Mis locations in Paris didn't include all my tags (I think I must have tried to list more than the maximum permitted number), I am doing a second post with the rest of the tags plus sample photos from the book: 1) the location of the Barricade, with the Rue Mondetour, where Eponine dies and Valjean and Marius vanish into the sewers, on the left; 2) St-Paul-St-Louis church, where in the novel Marius and Cosette are married, and in real life Victor Hugo's ill-fated daughter Leopoldine was married; 3) the surviving wall from La Force prison, where Thenardier, Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, Bigrenaille and Deuxmilliards are jailed, and the first four, aided by Gavroche, make a daring escape.

And, just in case you missed them first time around, here are the links to all three editions on Amazon:

Black & white edition:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCQTHM

Colour edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCNZRZ

"LES MISERABLES" LOCATIONS IN PARIS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE

BY KATIE BARNES

AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON

“Among many other things, “Les Misérables” is Victor Hugo's love letter to the Paris of his youth... His descriptions of its streets and buildings, and the routes the characters take, are almost forensically detailed and accurate.”

If you have ever wanted to know more about the locations in Paris where Victor Hugo says that Valjean, Javert and the other characters walked, this will be for you. Using contemporary and modern maps, photographs, engravings and paintings, this book gives detailed written and illustrated histories for 35 locations connected with the novel, the musical and the life of Victor Hugo, including the sites of the Barricade, the Rue Plumet, the quay where Javert commits suicide, the Cafe Musain, the church where Marius and Cosette are married, the street where Valjean dies, the street where Hugo was nearly killed on the night of the barricades, the Pantheon where he is buried, the place on the river bank where Valjean and Marius emerge from the sewers, and many more. And if you visit Paris in person, the book includes information on travel to each location by Metro, bus and bicycle, together with two suggested walking tours on the Right and Left Banks.

All profits are donated to Acting For Others, which provides financial and emotional support to all those working in theatrical professions, through its network of 14 member charities. I will receive no financial benefit whatsoever.

It's available as a Kindle download for £5.99/$7.99; as a paperback with colour illustrations for £21.50/$28.98; and as a paperback with illustrations in black & white for £12.50/$16.79. 

If you like it, please leave a rating and review on Amazon: if I get more than 10 positive reviews and ratings, Amazon will do more to help me publicise it, which would hopefully mean more sales and more funds raised for Acting for Others. 

These are the links to all three editions on Amazon:

Black & white edition:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCQTHM

Colour edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2WCNZRZ

Kindle edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4DWJ8LP

Huge thank yous to @comeco27, whose post alerted me to the existence of these unbelievably cute teddy bears, currently in the merch for the Les Mis Arena Tour in Shanghai. I found these photos on X, I had no way of seeking approval to re-post them here, so if the original poster is reading this and doesn't want the photos reproduced, contact me and I will take them down.