"Silly question on Les Miserables" Topic
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| Korvessa | 01 Oct 2020 10:47 a.m. PST |
or however you spell that. OK, so Jean was release in 1815 after 19 years in prison, meaning his original offense was in 1796 or so (give or take a year). Considering his original offense was fairly minor, wouldn't the recruiting sergeants have snatched him up at some point during the wars? And yes I know it is fiction. |
 etotheipi  | 01 Oct 2020 12:35 p.m. PST |
Of course, it is fiction … A plausible idea might be that the recruiting sergeants skipped anyone in the "thief" department without reading the details of their offence (assuming they could read, late 18th century/early 19th and all), as theft was a major morale problem you didn't want to deal with. So why invite it in? A thin and lame argument, to be sure, but … plausible? |
| John the OFM | 01 Oct 2020 1:13 p.m. PST |
The Brits of Perfidious Albion were the only ones who emptied the gaols. Didn't you know that? |
| Grelber | 01 Oct 2020 1:16 p.m. PST |
Weren't the prisoners used to perform labor of a semi-military nature like road repair? Things you'd have to detail real soldiers to do otherwise. Just because they weren't carrying guns doesn't mean they didn't contribute to the war effort. Grelber |
| LofArabia | 01 Oct 2020 1:26 p.m. PST |
I think Jean was too good of a singer! |
 Bobgnar  | 02 Oct 2020 4:29 p.m. PST |
I thought he was in the galley service. Isn't that the navy? Or is that just in the movie. |
| von Schwartz | 04 Oct 2020 7:08 a.m. PST |
What about all the various "penal battalions" used to perform menial labor like digging latrines and building roads? |
| Old Wolfman | 14 Oct 2020 10:37 a.m. PST |
1796; the Directory era. Although manhauling a first-rater into drydock is no picnic. |
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