title: Les Misrables, with eBook
author: Victor Hugo
description: Victor Hugo (18021885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. His best-known works are the novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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  # Scaramouche
  
  
  ## A Romance of the French Revolution
  
  
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  # BOOK I
  
  
  ## THE ROBE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  #### THE REPUBLICAN
  
  
  He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And
  that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the
  village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung
  about 