Les Miserables

On my 2011 trip to Paris, I paid a visit to the

novelist’s historic residence at No. 6, Place des Vosges (in the Le Marais

district), where a great portion of the epic novel was given birth. I stood bewildered

for a moment in that somber little room inside the mansion, wondering how the

lifeless space, in which he would remain for hours on end hunched over …