Have you read the Brick? Because i was looking for the scene that confirms that javert loves stars and constellations but i couldn’t find it. Could you find the passage that confirms it and perhaps upload a pic of it or is it really not in the original work of Les Mis by Vistor Hugo?

autumngracy:

autumngracy:

stephantom:

esteliel:

He doesn’t care at all about stars in the Brick, it’s purely musical
invention. He has no interests except for the rare pinch of snuff and
some reading, which he forces himself to do although he hates it.

In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he
hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could be
recognized by some emphasis in his speech.

As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, he
permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with
humanity.

The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the
terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of
Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert routed
them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at sight.

(Les Misérables 1.5.5)

Here’s a passage that does connect Javert with stars in a way that probably inspired the song Stars, in that it is using the stars to symbolize “order and light.” It’s from 1.8.3, when Javert bursts in on Valjean at Fantine’s bedside, after Valjean revealed his true identity at court.

lawisnotmocked:

I’m going to have to confess that I haven’t yet read the Brick!
Could anyone else help us out here? Does Javert’s love for the stars come from the Brick or the musical?

Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael.

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Hugo also makes a point of saying that there were no stars visible in the sky the night Javert commits suicide; just as Valjean notes there are no visible stars the night before he gives himself up at Arras

Oh, hey, so guess what it says the night Valjean dies:

“The night was starless and extremely dark.
No doubt, in the gloom, some
immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul.“

THANKS FOR THAT, HUGO