When we meet the Thenardiers again in Paris, they’ve lost the inn, and M. Thenardier is running a series of scams begging for money through letters. He diversifies his identities, tactics and targets in the pitches. Today he’d claim to be a Nigerian prince in one letter and a lottery commissioner in another. But the letter begging his neighbor (a penniless student named Marius) for money is about as honest as it could be…except for his name, which he’s given as Jondrette.
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