A hero of the wars of the Revolution and of Napoleon, who made him a colonel, a Baron, and an officer of the Legion of Honor during the Hundred Days.
Louis XVIII recognized none of that, nothing that was done during the Hundred Days, as valid.
He is the father of Marius, pushed aside by his father in law, M. Gillenormand, a rich old royalist bourgeois who seized his grandson at his birth, fatal to his daughter.
We have heard of this Pontmercy before.
Wounded and lying on the quiet field at Waterloo, he was robbed by then Sergeant Thenardier, who emptied his pockets and took the cross of the Legion of Honor from his neck.
But he had succored the man, who would remember him for saving his life.
Marius sees his dead father, and it means nothing to him.
He has never seen him before.
He has a note from the dead man telling him to be of service to Thenardier.
Who does not foresee that will cause trouble?
Les Miserables.
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