Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | Part 1 | Full-Cast Audiobook | The Bishop Who Gave Up His Palace

In 1815 M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel is Bishop of D——, an old man of about seventy-five. His episcopal palace adjoins the hospital. He counts the beds, and tells the director: "There are thirty-six of you, in five or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for sixty." On the following day the thirty-six patients are installed in the Bishop's palace, and the Bishop is settled in the hospital. Listen to Part One of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, in Isabel F. Hapgood's English translation, as a full-cast audiobook: the Bishop, Mademoiselle Baptistine, Madame Magloire, the old member of the Convention, the senator and every other speaking part each keep one consistent voice from the first line to the last, and a separate narrator reads the story. The people of D—— call him Monseigneur Welcome. He lives with his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, and their servant, Madame Magloire, eats from silver dishes, and keeps two large candlesticks of massive silver inherited from a great-aunt. He crosses the mountains where the bandit Cravatte is hiding, and visits the conventionary G—— as he lies dying. Then, early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man who was travelling on foot enters the little town of D——, and finds every door closed to him. English subtitles appear on screen, and English captions (CC) are available too. Narration: AI voices (American English), one fixed voice per speaker. Chapters 00:00 Volume One: Fantine, Book First, Chapter I: M. Myriel 05:57 Chapter II: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome 16:54 Chapter III: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop 21:20 Chapter IV: Works Corresponding to Words 37:37 Chapter V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long 43:21 Chapter VI: Who Guarded His House for Him 55:14 Chapter VII: Cravatte 1:02:58 Chapter VIII: Philosophy after Drinking 1:11:43 Chapter IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister 1:19:23 Chapter X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light 1:46:53 Chapter XI: A Restriction 1:56:06 Chapter XII: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome 2:02:23 Chapter XIII: What He Believed 2:10:51 Chapter XIV: What He Thought 2:16:14 Book Second: The Fall, Chapter I: The Evening of a Day of Walking Novel: Les Misérables (Part One: Volume I, Fantine, Book First, Chapters I-XIV, and Book Second, Chapter I) Author: Victor Hugo Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood Language: English English source text: Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 Audio production and presentation: NOVEL NIGHTS #VictorHugo #LesMiserables #Audiobook