How does valjean become mayor

Valjean escapes from prison while saving another man's life. The authorities assume he has died after falling into the sea, so he takes the opportunity to create a new identity for himself. He goes and digs up his fortune and tracks down Fantine's daughter Cosette. He takes Cosette to live with him in Paris. Valjean and Cosette aren't in Paris long before they bump into a policeman named Javert who recognizes them. They escape and live the next few years in a convent.

When they leave the convent, Valjean and Cosette live a comfortable life. Valjean realizes that Cosette has fallen in love with a neighborhood boy, and he decides to take her to live in England in order to avoid attracting attention. When he finds out how much Cosette's admirer Marius loves her, Valjean runs into the heart of a street rebellion to save the kid by carrying his unconscious body through the Paris sewers.

Once Marius and Cosette have married, Valjean reveals his true past to Marius, who is shocked. In , an adaptation as a musical — not a common medium in France — was a huge success in Paris.

By an Anglophone adaptation was an even larger success in London, and soon it became an even even bigger hit on Broadway. Which in turn led to a blockbuster movie. Powers and Abilities Having done forced labour for many years, Jean Valjean is a very strong man. He has also learned to survive in hard environments. As mayor of Montreuil, Valjean learned the ways of a gentleman, perhaps one of humble condition, but gentle indeed.

That includes legal knowledge. For 19 winters served his time, in sweat he washed away his crime. After a meeting with a bishop in his way to receive his parole, Jean Valjean was convinced to begin a new life. Years later, Valjean was the mayor of the village of Montreuil-sur-Mer. He began as a worker on a ceramic workshop. He eventually became became the owner and was chosen mayor of the town. His relationship with Fantine, a prostitute and ex-worker of his workshop made him take care of Cosette, her daughter, until she died.

The trailer and many photo galleries include Jean Valjean falling on his knees and tearing up his yellow passport. The scene doesn't appear in the final film. Bille August rejected the original score composed by Gabriel Yared.

Yared said he could see it coming because there was 'no harmony' between the two of them. Yared was replaced by Basil Poledouris , who had a limited time to compose a full score.

When the film was released, many movie posters listed Yared as composer, not Poledouris. In the novel, Fantine and Cosette are blonde but in the film they are brunette despite the fact that Uma Thurman, who plays Fantine, and Claire Danes, who plays Cosette, are both naturally blonde.

Spoilers The trivia item below may give away important plot points. Contrary to what is seen in most of the promotional material for this film, where Notre Dame de Paris is shown to have a spire in both the previews and poster, in the movie itself it doesn't.