![]() He is without vices, but upon occasion will take a pinch of snuff. Reflective thought is "an uncommon thing for him, and singularly painful" because thought inevitably contains "a certain amount of internal rebellion." He is "a compound" of "respect for authority and hatred of rebellion," Hugo writes, "but he made them almost bad by dint of his exaggeration of them". In the novel, he becomes obsessed with the pursuit and punishment of the protagonist Jean Valjean after his violation of parole.Īs Hugo depicts it, Javert's misguided and self-destructive pursuit of justice is more tragic than villainous. First a prison guard, and then a police inspector, his character is defined by his legalist tendencies and lack of empathy for criminals of all forms. He was presumably born in 1780 and died on June 7, 1832. ![]() ![]() Javert ( French pronunciation: ), no first name given in the source novel, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. ![]() Javert – illustration from original publication of Les Misérables, after a painting by Gustave Brion ![]()
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