Since I have several English translations of Les Misérables, I thought it'd be fun to compare them as a sort of belated Barricade Day gift. I'm going to try to take various excerpts, balancing them between passages that are popular in fandom, passages that are famous or iconic in general culture, and passages that are just interesting from a ( Read more... )

Another character trait of M. Gillenormand, according to a note found in Victor Hugo's papers ( Read more... )

As always, corrections welcome.
( At the End of the Day )

Because we all know the French lyrics are better. ;) Call this a rough draft, and if you've got suggestions or nitpicks on my French, feel free to comment with them.
( Chain Gang )

And here we have the long-overdue translation of that article I posted a few weeks ago. Please forgive the awkwardness of the prose; this thing was a bitch to translate and the version I'm posting here isn't polished at all.

( On the émeutes of June 1831 )

I swear around here there are two weeks in late April/early May and two weeks in October where everyone gets to say, "Oh look, the weather is so beautiful!" and then the rest of the year it's either in the 90s with 86% humidity or in the 30s with sleet and freezing rain ( Read more... )

( A quick and dirty translation of M. de Miollis' letter, for those who don't read French. )

And you thought I wouldn't be doing any more translations of the deleted Brickbits, did you?

( Tholomyès is involved in a scandal, English version )

Les Amis, reconnoitering a bit before the émeute, run into Patron-Minette in an abandoned quarry. Sounds like a bad fanfiction, doesn't it?

( I promised, and here it is. Excerpts from Allem's annotated Brick, part one. )