"1822, 1823, it seems. I did check--it took time, but the records are there for Fantine's arrest and death, at least. For the rest-- there's no one to ask, save M. Fauchelevent and Javert himself. I won't torment the one, and the other-- I didn't want to give him any reason to go looking for the book. And I do doubt he'd even remember."

There's more to say on the subject of Javert, but of course Feuilly has asked the important question. "As to the child-- and I did not know this, when I first began reading it-- she survived, and lived well, against all the odds. And she is Marius Pontmercy's fiancée, if not his wife by now."