#3.6.6

On one hand Marius and Cosette glancing at each other is likened to Spring which is a very Symbolic description of new things stirring and Marius’ walks in nature have led to this moment. It is also likened to ‘a flash of brilliance’ and ‘dawn breaking in the sky’ - light metaphors linked to new feelings and love stirring.

On the other hand, I wish Hugo would not talk about women because he comes across as really gross here with the whole talk about a woman’s gaze deliberately trapping a man. Women aren’t laying down traps for men when they look at them. It is a very stereotypical, boy and girl discover love at first sight, but I wish Hugo didn’t make it out as if women’s looks are wily, deceiving and full of traps and talk about ‘a virgin with a woman’s gaze’ because Cosette is fifteen, it would not be acceptable to talk of her at an older age too but she is fifteen so it is deeply uncomfortable when Hugo writes about a fifteen year old girl this way.

It is interesting though, I think it’s probably the first time Marius really has noticed someone properly and seen how he might appear in their eyes, which also causes him to notice how people see him.

3.6.4

I really like this line, ‘I have seen Marius’s new hat and coat with Marius in them.’ Courfeyrac is such a troll, he’s always making fun.

The appearance of the bourgeois and his admonitions of avoiding extremes is interesting especially since he himself does not seem to be avoiding any extremes, perhaps he is meant as a warning for Marius to not overdo things? But I can’t really take him and his warning seriously, so maybe we are not meant to.

I do find it hilarious that Marius has the same opinions that Hugo does comparing Racine and Moliere. Hugo in his Preface also compares them and even though it has been a while since I’ve read the Preface to Cromwell, I think he does not care for Racine’s classical bent and the Aristotelian unity, whereas he might be slightly more sympathetic to Moliere’s comedy. Hugo’s preface is not perfect in its arguments, but it is interesting as a Romantic Manifesto.

I also love how self-conscious Marius is with regards to his clothes and how amusing it is that Hugo attributes his own work to Marius, which was published when Marius was all of ten years old.

It’s also amusing that Marius thinks that Monsieur LeBlanc must think his new hat and trousers to be splendid and therefore judge him a good person and it is very much like Marius to forget to eat in his preoccupations.  

3.6.5

Courfeyrac gives everyone nicknames. It is said that he does not take anything seriously but I’m not sure if he is meant to be very terrible, Brujon does not seem such a bad nickname. And yet we do know that Courfeyrac takes some things like politics very seriously. He’s showing his playful side here and probably also does not mean to be offensive with the nickname, although we don’t really get to see things from his point of view here. I also find it interesting how being in the fandom has made me approach the amis probably slightly differently than I would have if I didn’t already like them a lot, so I am willing to think a lot more favourably of Courfeyrac than maybe I would. Maybe I would be as confused with him as Marius is. I do think Courfeyrac is very much a paladin and a thoroughly decent guy but he has his mischievous/playful streak. 

Also, once again Madame Brujon seems to be made fun of by the narrative, she’s only curious where Marius is going everyday in his new hat and coat everyday which is a valid concern, since he is living in cheap accommodations, he might be doing something suspicious.  I find it annoying how Hugo so easily dismisses or makes fun of minor women characters.

3.6.6

Cosette and Valjean’s approach towards Marius is once again compared with all the light symbolisms. Cosette glances at him but once again I find the whole bit about her beauty being feminine and angelic kind of off-putting because she is still very young but this time we get to see it from Marius’ point of view and what he thinks of her and yet he is still worried about his boots, which is a very Pontmercy thing and I do like it. I like Marius being a dork and he’s being a dork in the way that I find sweet.

I don’t like Hugo going, ‘A woman’s look is like powerful mechanisms’ that work on you while you are not aware, and you find you have given up your future and your soul. It’s not…it’s not how love is supposed to work. Cosette was just going about her way, being a young girl- this is blaming Cosette for her casual look which was not meant to make anyone think that she was interested (granted I am speaking from a 21st century feminist perspective, but I really think Hugo is not being fair here even from a 19th Century perspective on love). 

It’s also, I don’t know, their love at this moment feels passive in many ways. Cosette glanced in his direction without any intentions to fall in love and Hugo was the one being weird about how women’s looks are traps which start a process over which Marius has no control. I guess this is how love at first sight maybe happens, I don’t know (Hugo knew Adele before they fell in love so it can’t really be about his own courtship), but it still feels slightly too much of a thing that happened to them rather than both of them choosing it. It feels more like a coincidence or something that was meant to be, without their choosing.

Courfeyrac makes a passing remark to keeping women as a collection, and he makes the remark outside of the hat shop girl’s hearing, perhaps to emphasise that he is not like Tholomyes, but in some ways he is. He seems to have some of his views on treating love as a transaction, although as other people mentioned, he would make sure to not abandon his lover and also that everyone was having a good time, so he is not.

In Which Cosette Takes Agency! I mean, we don't actually know that that's what she's doing, but I love Marius' mental dialog for her where she goes, 'Well fine, if you won't come to me, guess I'll have to come to you.' And Hugo doesn't even ruin it by being super gross! I mean, he's kind of gross, but on the whole the Cosette descriptions in this chapter are relatively tame. She's got more light symbolism, but stunningly little about being a ~trap~ right up until the very last paragraph, which is mostly written in the abstract.

This is definitely one of those Marius chapters that feels autobiographical. I have absolutely no trouble believing that Hugo is pulling from his own experiences being young and in love to write this, although whether he's pulling straight from his courtship with Adele or from an amalgam of experiences is hard to say without knowing far more about him than I do. But it all feels suitably dramatic and over the top, and is also a nice study in how to make a character behave uncharacteristically without writing him as out of character. All of this is entirely different from how we've learned that Marius behaves, yet none of it feels out of line. If anything, it's almost in parallel to the last great burst of emotion we saw from him, when he leaned out his window to praise the Emperor. Marius... does not do things by halves.

It really is very endearing that Marius has no idea how stupidly good-looking he is. Especially because we know that Cosette has recognized that she herself is beautiful. It’s a fitting contrast. “She looked at him steadily, with a sweet and thoughtful look...It seemed to him that she reproached him for having been so long without coming to her, and that she said: ‘It is I who come.’” I want more of this dynamic! (Like, genuinely, not just in Marius’s head)

“He imagined that Monsieur Leblanc was hurling angry looks upon him.” Valjean is more paranoid than a combat veteran. This is almost definitely happening and not just Marius’s imagination.

This is “to be struck to the bone in a moment of breathless delight.” I have to know, what exactly is it about Cosette that attracts Marius so? We know it isn’t simply her looks and it isn’t just the fact that she seems interested in him as well. Otherwise, Marius could have had his pick of women to obsess over before her. We could infer that it’s the particular tinge of melancholy in her presentation, considering Marius probably has a similar aura, but it just isn’t that clear. I suppose that’s part of the nature of love and attraction, but I’m so curious.

“You will not escape from the terrible machine, until, according as you are in the power of a malevolent nature, or a noble heart, you shall be disfigured by shame or transfigured by love.” Unless your name is Marius Pontmercy and then you might be able to get both!

“However he passed before it no more, obeying at once the instinct of timidity and the instinct of prudence, peculiar to lovers. He thought it better not to attract the ‘attention of the father.’” That’s a good instinct, Marius, listen to that voice whispering deep inside. Cosette is launching her barrage of “““feminine wiles””” and Valjean is 150% onto the game.

It’s sweet that Cosette is flirting back but, damn, Marius is taking this, um, courtship to a whole other level. The whole handkerchief thing has to be something that Hugo himself accidentally did in his youth, right? That’s the only explanation for how absurd this situation is.

“I feel her whole soul in it!”

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One afternoon, after about two weeks, Marius is sitting in the park “reading,” and Leblanc and Lanoire get up from their usual bench and start walking towards him.

“Ah! good Heavens!” thought he, “I shall not have time to strike an attitude.”

As they pass by, Lanoire looks directly at him. It is as if she is asking why it has been so long since he has passed by their bench. Marius is dazzled by her beauty and embarrassed by his dusty boots.

After she has passed, Marius begins wandering around. He finds Courfeyrac and goes out to dinner with him, spending much more than usual on his meal, and then invites Courfeyrac to go to the theater. Even the next morning, Marius is much happier than usual, and he laughs at everything.

In which Marius is definitely now aware of his crush on Cosette, continues acting dazed & confused, and then takes Courfeyrac on a date*.

Hugo’s really intent differentiating this love-for-someone-you’ve-seen-but-never-spoken-to-and-know-nothing-about-except-for-their-physical-appearance from lust. I’m still not sure what the practical differences between those two things are, but it’s apparently important since Hugo deals with it twice. First in Marius’s adverse reaction to Courf’s “collection” remark, and then via pronouncement of resident Romantic poet Jehan Prouvaire that Marius’s infatuation is serious, not humorous**. 

*Ok, sure, maybe he’s supposed to just be happy and jovial and sociable for a change, but still consider: Marius takes Courf to a fancier dinner than usual, then treats him to the theater, and they breakfast together the next day.

**I know, tropes about the experience of being in love, etc. But if one of my friends kept forgetting to eat, losing hours worth of time, and unconsciously acting erratic, I’d be worried about their health, not their lovelife.