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September 2015

autumngracy:

neroushalvaus:

Javert really isn’t alert all the time. And it’s kind of adorable.

I mean, during Fantine’s arrest he is so shocked about the whole situation that he just stands there for a moment and doesn’t snap out of it before he hears the sound of the latch when Fantine tries to leave. And at that point he has momentarily forgotten all about Madeleine being there and that the Mayor already said that Fantine is free to go. 

Again at the barricades, when Javert is working undercover. He has been observing the revolutionaries like a hawk, and when he’s done doing that, he just sits down and spaces out. He “doesn’t seem to see anything that’s going on”, doesn’t even notice Gavroche circling around him, and when Enjolras finally asks who he is, he just kind of startles awake. 

Javert is a daydreamer pass it on.

Well he is described as a “melancholy dreamer,” so …

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Facts about Javert‘s Jobs

autumngracy:

Okay so the other day I was casually rereading the brick again and at one point Javert says he was an adjutant guard.

Here is the definition of that courtesy of Google:

1. a military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

  • a person’s assistant or deputy.

According to Wikipedia is corresponds roughly with a staff sergeant or a warrant officer.

Another site said that when addressing the adjutant guard the senior officer would say “mon adjutant” so basically “my assistant”

Anyways basically this means that yes brick Javert would have worn that guard outfit with the snazzy hat (no, not the bicorn; the other one):

But also it means he was some other guard’s assistant and I find that really interesting?? Like, he becomes a temporary assistant/bodyguard for the (then) secretary to the Prefect of Police later, which is why he is in M-sur-M … Does he have like this network of officials that give him referrals?

Also on a sort of unrelated note I found out that the gendarmerie, which was pretty much like the military force charged with police duties in the civilian population, kind of had a rivalry going with the local police (because they would sometimes have to fight over whose jurisdiction something fell under maybe??) And also the symbol of the gendarmerie was a flaming grenade. Silver laurel leaves seem to be a theme in the French Police (I think they’re worn on the collar?).

Wikipedia says: “There are two national police forces called “Police nationale” and “Gendarmerie nationale”. The Prefecture of Police of Paris which provides policing services directly to Paris as a subdivision of France’s Ministry of the Interior. Within these national forces only certain designated police officers have the power to conduct criminal investigations which are supervised by investigative magistrates.”

So is Javert actually higher ranking than a regular police officer? I had always thought he actually ranked below them, being given risky spy missions and such, but now I’m thinking the opposite. It does say he has subordinates in the brick.

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