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 Marcelin Enjolras, a student in Paris
 Chantal Marie, alias Christian Caron, his younger sister
 Julie and Elise, other sisters
 Gautier, their father
 Régine, their mother
 Aunt Jacqueline, Gautier's sister
 Felicienne, a cousin
 Etienne Combeferre, Marcelin's closest friend
 René Courfeyrac, friend of Marcelin and Etienne
 Manon Latour, his mistress
 Jean, their son
 Celestine, their daughter
 M. and Mme. de Courfeyrac, René's parents
 Alexandre Joly, a medical student
 Laigle, called Bossuet, his constant companion
 Musichetta, their girlfriend
 Alissandre ("Alisse"), their daughter
 Jean Prouvaire ("Jehan"), a student, Combeferre's friend, of a poetical bent
 Claudette Prouvaire, called Claude, his cousin, later a doctor, because she's special
 François Grantaire, Enjolras' unwelcome hanger-on
 Jeanne Tirmont, his sister
 Claudette Lambert, their great-aunt
 Jacques and Robert, Jeanne's sons
 Gigi, her daughter
 Paul Feuilly, familiarly Paulin, a fan-maker
 Alain and Marie Desmarais, his friends
 Gregory Bahorel, a student of a rather violent disposition
 Marius Pontmercy, Courfeyrac's friend and occasional roommate
 Mathieu Dufresne, a mild-mannered young man
 Jaden Knight, a young Englishman befriended by Grantaire
 Gavroche, a street urchin
 Samuel, an ailing gamin, Claude's patient
 Michaud, his younger brother
 Renée Morienval, a friend of Manon's, in love with Enjolras
 Katharine, an absent-minded girl
 Delphine, a seamstress and reader of romances
 Constance Dechesne, her friend, actress at the Theatre del Sol
 Lyn, a café waitress
 Isabelle, Babette, Fabienne, and Felicia, maidservants
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