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Jean Valjean is a fictional character in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

Valjean is caught stealing a loaf of bread to feed a sister and her family. He is in jail for nineteen years. The rest of his life is spent seeking redemption. He uses a skill learned in prison to start a successful business, and later becomes mayor of a town. He adopts and raises Cosette, the orphaned daughter of Fantine, an employee he allowed to be unjustly fired. A decade later he fights at The Barricade in order to protect the life of Marius, a young man with whom Cosette has fallen in love.