Labels:bulletin board | earth | gazette | grass | person | reckoner | sky OCR: Les Miseraoes Victor Hugo: One af the nineteenth century's mast enduring and popular works fiction 1883 after reading Les Miserables, Van Gogh expressed deer sympathy with an ancillary character the peasant bishop Monsignor Myriel. In the novel this simple, childlike mar retires to his garden late at night to meditate on the nocturnal sky. To Vincent Monsignor Myriel was like Cooot and Millet painters who fiercely defended the redemptive power af unadorned nature In 1888 Gauguin sent Van Gogh self-portrait inscribed "Les miserables, clarifying in letter that he identified with the novel's suffering protagonist, Jean Valjean. In the letter Gauguin wrote: As Ihave given him [Valjean] my tea tures, you have picture nat only of me personally, but portrait of us TAJE paar victims of society wha ...