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Les Miserables: Cosette & Valjean Meet The Reverend Mother

Part 2, book 8, chapter 8 - Valjean and Cosette are admitted to the convent as residents, and for the first time in quite a while they can breathe easier.
Les Miserables: The Reverend Mother's Request

Part 2, book 8, chapter 3 - A startling request that just may open an unexpected door
Les Miserables: Fauchelevent and the Reverend Mother

Part 2, book 8, chapter 2 - A proposal and a mysterious request
Les Miserables: Monastaries, Should They Exist?

Part 2, book 7, chapter 7 - Here Hugo brings things back around to the monastery and asserts that the response to something complicated like this is always both yes and no
Les Miserables: Hugo Pontificates Further

Part 2, book 7, chapter 4 - Hugo's argument for the Republic is mixed and diluted by his prejudices
Les Miserables: When The Vessel Obscures The Infinite

Part 2, book 7, chapter 2 - Some thoughts from Hugo on the way that convents like the one we have spent time exploring can actually obscure our vision of the Infinite
Les Miserables: Deeper Digressions, Clearer Intentions

Part 2, book 7, chapter 1 - We begin in a eight chapter parenthesis that uses the convent / monastery to talk about spirituality and the role it plays in this novel and Hugo's own worldview
Les Miserables: The Decline of Petit-Picpus

Part 2, book 6, chapter 11 - Hugo details the slow decline of the convent as it approached the time of his writing
Les Miserables: The Sepulchral Parlor

Part 2, book 6, chapter 10 - Hugo reiterates just how much darker and more austere the practice and physical space of the nuns at Petit-Picpus was compared to other convents
Les Miserables: A Strange Old Woman

Part 2, book 6, chapter 9 - Hugo spends time telling us about a strange centanarian who lived at the Petit-Picpus little convent
Les Miserables: The Grounds of Petit-Picpus

Part 2, book 6, chapter 8 - Here Hugo gives us more detail about the layout of the grounds
Les Miserables: Indulgence and Severity

Part 2, book 6, chapter 7 - Hugo details the inter-relationships of the convent, the boarding school and the nuns of the little convent
Les Miserables: The Little Convent

Part 2, book 6, chapter 6 - more about isolation and the various residents of Petit-Picpus
Les Miserables: A Touch of Brightness

Part 2, book 6, chapter 4 - in which we learn that the children brought a touch of brightness to this dark and dreary convent.
Les Miserables: The Boarding School

Part 2, book 6, chapter 3 - in which we learn that the convent was home to a boarding school run by the sisters
Les Miserables: The Bernadine Convent of the Perpetual Adoration

Part 2, book 6, chapter 2 - In which we learn about how these nuns practiced perpetual adoration and at least one mystery is resolved
Les Miserables: The Mysterious Convent at Petit Rue Picpus, No. 62

Part 2, book 6, chapter 1 - Our introduction to the strange convent that Valjean and Cosette have found themselves in
Les Miserables: Saved by the Gardener

Part 2, book 5, chapter 9 - Valjean learns they are on the grounds of a convent and that the groundskeeper is a man he saved two years ago

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