#Barricade Day

[lost-wandering-historian]

It's that time of the year again! Remember to leave out bread and absinthe for Victor Hugo and he will leave you 50 pages on a subject that is off-topic but that he is vaguely interested in. Be safe out there!

#les miserables #barricade day #les mis #les misérables #victor hugo

[cosettegf]

hey sorry we put your boyfriends in a perpetual time loop. yeah they're fated to die tragically in a doomed rebellion on 5-6th june every year. sorry.

#the hero is dead at the start etc etc #les mis #les misérables #barricade day #time loop

[ashleyslorens]

AARON TVEIT as Enjolras LES MISÉRABLES (2012) dir. Tom Hooper

#les miserables #les mis #aaron tveit #enjolras #filmedit #aarontveitedit #lesmiserablesedit #lesmisedit #movieedit #enjolrasedit #musicaledit #barricade day #* #well ofc i had to make this for today

[thatbarricade]

#barricade day #les mis #les miserables #les amis #les amis de l'abc #polls

[sachart]

I started this for last year's Barricade Day then forgot about it and finished it about a month ago

Happy Barricade Day 2023 everyone! I guess I'm never growing out of this

#sach art #les mis #les miserables #les amis #les amis de l'abc #enjolras #grantaire #bahorel #feuilly #courfeyrac #combeferre #joly #bossuet #marius pontmercy #eponine thenardier #jehan prouvaire #barricade day #enjoltaire #exr

[smchr-nina]

When the best fandom reunites to celebrate a non-official holiday based on a revolution mentioned in a 200-year-old novel

#barricade day #classic literature #les miserables #les mis #victor hugo #enjoltaire #enjolras #les amis de l'abc #happy barricade day #i love this yearly event with all my heart #btw ik the revolution was real

[secretmellowblog]

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

#les mis #barricade day #people really act like Les mis is a tale of two cities #which does have the shallow xec

[permit-it]

#les mis #les miserables #les amis #les amis de l'abc #grantaire #enjolras #enjoltaire #exr #barricade day

[enjolraspermettendo]

Other fandoms: celebrate their characters' birthdays

Les Mis fandom: celebrate their characters' massacre

#Happy barricade day my friends #les miserables #les mis #barricade boys #barricade day

[secretmellowart]

Happy Barricade Day! Here's a painting of the Rue de la Chanvrerie barricade <3

#les mis #barricade day #artists on tumblr #that gay little barricade #mellow art #my les mis art #my art #i even got the carpe ho ras yay

[batrachois]

happy (late) barricade day

who has been unhooking the stars without my permission and putting them on the table in the guise of candles.

[id in alt text]

#description in alt #alt text #art #fanart #les mis #enjolras #grantaire #barricade day #this took a day longer than planned ops #hope y’all like it #im trying to put the alt text gimme a sec im old and slow

[castles-in-the-eyre]

yes someone’s almost definitely done this before no I don’t care it’s the dead gays day

#les mis #barricade day #exr #enjoltaire

[breath-of-fresh-grantaire]

#seanposting #les mis #les miserables #barricade day #grantaire #enjolras #combeferre #courfeyrac #les amis de l'abc #marius pontmercy

[cosettegf]

i think everything's going to go to plan and the people are gonna rise. they'll all succeed this time

#les mis #les misérables #barricade day

[elinordash]

Pour une seule barricade qui tombe cent autres se lèveront demain

#les mis #lesmisedit #barricade day #les miserables #enjolras #musicaledit #musicalgifs #adaptationsdaily #perioddramaedit #minee #gifset #userabs #usermaria #userhallie #tuserheidi #usertina #usershale #userrin #tusercat #userrobin #i made this super quickly no grand plans this year #might make a quick enjoltaire too #anyway the french finale lyrics are superior to anything #and I don't even speak french

[chaoticfandomthot]

Happy barricade day to those who observe

#best french holidat #(im fremch i get to say that) #barricade day #les misérables #les mis #aiden originals #am i queuing this right