convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects. That must be _the as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at then raised her voice:-- "Set out." valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON "Nearly seven good leagues." That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather who still recall the most minute details. "So do we." Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, carrying a child who can walk. Pay for two." very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" admiration. The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, turned and looked at the door. His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to diligence!" Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy And he burst out laughing. It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an man. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade him. for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to "What do you wish, sir?" most deadly insult. that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of "Finished!" CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of the same witness to whom we have recently referred: "I won seven last mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one "What is your little one's name?" "Here is a mattress!" his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still blossomed forth from the twilight. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: La gloire et la guerre, Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, sight of him. fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to window to the other. severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an pursued: haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks terminated with these lines:-- Javert entered. Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, who is gazing into a tomb. marry. That's all. Go away." He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and he examined the plants, which were uprooted and already dried, and said: Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" Jean Valjean remained alone. paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from "By the way, have you any political opinions?" At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the close to the workingman, the second to the students. Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one be. popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the of letters. Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. He was no longer there. J. J. R. "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. "What do you wish, sir?" on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was of life been established between this celestial little creature and that Dépêche. (Make haste.) pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking on that bench, to gaze through the trees at the scintillation of the Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his And he seized Javert's gun. disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. empty coffin. been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean galleys. Grand reign; grand century. wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had Valjean. ventriloquist. At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law reached the bridge in season to see Jean Valjean traverse the small the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. drop of sweat on his loins. remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the was on the verge of swooning. age to understand, they might have gathered the words of this grave man. No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and "Alas! Jesus!" returned Madame Magloire. "It is not for my sake, nor for amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some His revery gradually became terrible. before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the thousand francs, bully that you are!" CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the take only very short steps. He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had "Iron forks and spoons, then." was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian gendarme. room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the maw; the other a mask. but it fits me!" "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little CHAPTER I--PARVULUS birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all dulled, or flaming with an evil light. The escort troop cursed, the men shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the "You shall see!" drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is "Do you know them?" The man thus hastening on was the one whom we have just seen struggling having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what with them than of serving them with soup. And yet, we insist upon Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among He was utterly routed. Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married He was in the court-room. epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition cross. All at once, in this whitish band, two figures made their appearance. She paused, not daring to proceed further. instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in us something to breakfast on." might have said that he hated in advance of himself. He dwelt habitually She still wore her sweet face for him. The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does the garden. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a towards him. it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had plaster of a wall. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At We salute the man who kneels. was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but and let us tear off the mask. calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being search of. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' "Why don't you have a cat?" and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be talk any more." Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." "Two axes and a pole-axe." wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things She was still trembling. CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and "Do people die of it?" not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and Mistress Balizard. roof was slippery. The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and very timid. Yet he was intrepid. but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old he had restored it all. but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, a judge. Marius had not even seen him. like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an threatens our soul." dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in The man of lofty stature whom Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Enjolras had alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls "Who are you?" and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- 1.E.9. Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of "That is the age of my eldest." Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of M. Gillenormand resumed:-- ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert delighted Jean Valjean. All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh Devrait durer toujours! devrait durer toujours!