#5.9.4

One day, Marius receives a letter which smells like tobacco and looks unsettling. He recognizes both the smell and the handwriting. The letter states that the sender, who is waiting in the antechamber, has a secret which concerns someone who concerns Marius. 

Marius has Basque bring the man in. Marius is expecting to see his old neighbor Jondrette, but the man who appears is a stranger. His clothes are threadbare, and they don’t fit him. They were lent to him by “the Changer,” a man who collects all sorts of costumes and rents them out to thieves who need to appear honest.

The man reveals that there is a thief and an assassin inside Marius’s house. He tells him that the thief’s name is Jean Valjean, but Marius tells him he already knew this. Marius reveals that he also knows the stranger’s name: Thenardier. Marius says that he knows that Valjean robbed a mayor named Madeleine and killed a police agent named Javert.

Thenardier corrects him, telling him that Madeleine is Valjean and that Javert killed himself. Marius is relieved. Thenardier then tells Marius that he saw Valjean in the sewers on June 6, 1832, carrying a dead man and that Thenardier ripped off a piece of the dead man’s coat as proof. Marius recognizes the fabric.

Marius throws some money at Thenardier and tells him to leave. 

Two days later, Thenardier leaves for America with Azelma and twenty thousand francs. He is not redeemed.

In which Thénardier attempts to blackmail Marius, but instead proves JVJ’s innocence (of the crimes Marius thinks him guilty of) and heroism (in saving Marius & Javert, to varying degrees of success).

I still find it the tiniest bit far-fetched that Thénardier has those two newsclippings about his person. The Madeleine-JVJ one, sure, it’s relevant to the story he’s trying to sell. But why would “Javert survived the barricade and then drowned himself” figure into his “your father-in-law is JVJ who I saw kill a man last year” story? Sure, Javert was the cop tailing Thénardier, but the clipping has nothing to do with JVJ nor the ‘corpse’ he was carrying. 

But, it’s the end of the book and Hugo does need to tie up the last plot threads. And he’s basically run out of living characters who know the different story elements, so Thénardier it is.

Even knowing the immense debt he ‘owes’ Thénardier, and the desire to make him go away, I do blame Marius for giving Thénardier so much money. Give the guy 5 francs and he buys weapons for an ambush, give him 23000, and he’ll get involved in the slave trade.

[I somehow suspect that that is one of the lines that got cut in the censored “Confederate” translation. After all, Hugo just spent 1200 pages establishing Thénardier as the most amoral scoundrel ever. Also also...Thénardier managed to horrifically harm all 6 children to get anywhere near him so far; I really can’t bear thinking about how terribly Thénardier would treat people he had even more socially-sanctioned power over.]

I chose to read the “Cosette did not understand” line as describing that Marius is explaining the situation badly (perhaps that he’s talking too fast and he’s certainly referencing many people/things that he never mentioned before). 

In which Thenardier attempts to blackmail Marius regarding JVJ, and instead ends up vindicating JVJ to him.

I still wish this had happened sooner, but at least Marius now has some sense of what the readers knew all along. 

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If I just don't blog on 5.9.2-3 can I pretend they didn't happen? Cause I"m just gonna go with that. So, I'm just going to ignore the Valjena sads for Marius and Thenadier .

So... 5.9.4 Thenadier confronting Marius.

I enjoyed this chapter as for all the moments of Marius why in this book and a few even in this chapter... it was nice to see him actually being a bit cool with his confronting Thenadier.

But from the begining- Thenadier comes in. Trying to be all charming and hey didn't I see you at this and such event? and Marius being No, never been there get the point, begin the beguine... don't you realize we're a protagonist short in this idyllic well produced scene... wait wrong musical.

And he does get Thenadier to finally to get to the point. (Though I do wonder why Marius in his having the note close enough to smell Thenadier tobacco didn't actually comprehend what he was seeing Or just know Thenadier's rep from the other notes you saw... he obviously wants money.)

This man has insinuated himself into your confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing."

"I am listening."

"His name is Jean Valjean."

"I know it."

"I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is."

"Say on."

"He is an ex-convict."

"I know it."

"You know it since I have had the honor of telling you."

"No. I knew it before."

I love this bit though. We've had so few reasons to smile the last few chapters and to see Thenadier and his dramatic reveal being thwarted is lovely.

And then this lovely bit.

"I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, just as I know your name."

"My name?"

"Yes."

"That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to you and to tell it to you. Thenard."

"—Dier."

"Hey?"

"Thenardier."

"Who's that?"

In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter.

Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a fillip.

Marius continued:

"You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the poet, Don Alvares the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard."

"Mistress what?"

"And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil."

"A pot-house! Never."

"And I tell you that your name is Thenardier."

"I deny it."

"And that you are a rascal. Here."

And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face.

I just love that Marius for a little bit gets the upper hand on Thenadier. Knows who he is and lays it all out smooth like.... then throws money in his face? I admit I don't get why Marius is throwing the money around? It just plays a weird contrast. Though there is a sense of I'm so done with you I shall fling this in your face so you may go away. Farewell! All Marius needs is to do a dramatic exit right then...

But he throws Thenadier for a brief loop which I quite like.

"Who was this almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe?"

That's what I'm wondering Thenadier

.On an unrelated note, I'm going with Marius's almost beard being a  mustache...Mustachioed Marius should be a thing. Was that acceptable facial hair at the time?

Smart Thenadier; ix-nay on insulting the young ife-way's arantage-pay. as Hugo so elegantly put it... "the only result would be to attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer." (I would request a fan-fic where Thenadier is not so dull of discretion and Marius gives him that boot... is that too much to ask?

And then Marius gets disabused of his notions of Evil Valjean. Yay! Finally! (I do wonder why Marius never researched enough to find these articles.)

And Thenadier realizes that his wild card of but no your Father-In-Law murdered a  young man! I saw him carrying a body! is lost as Marius lets him no... uhmmm that "dead" body was me! And only raises Marius's estimation of Valjean.

And then Marius throws more money around? Seriously why is this your solution to everything? But his dialogue with Thenadier is cool if you edit out the money bits.

"Ah! Jondrette Thenardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the shadows, wretch!...get out of here! Waterloo protects you."

"Waterloo!" growled Thenardier, ...

"Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ."

"Of a General," said Thenardier, elevating his head.

"Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all that I desire. Ah! monster!... Go get yourself hung elsewhere!"