This novel was completed while its author was in exile from his home country and living in Guernsey. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this novel, in which a character is imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. Bishop Myriel protects that character in this novel when he attempts to steal his silverware.
ANSWER: Les Misérables [prompt on “Les Mis”]
[10e] This French author wrote about Jean Valjean’s experiences in the French justice system in Les Misérables.
ANSWER: Victor Hugo [or Victor-Marie Hugo]
[10h] This character in another Hugo novel is wrongly sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. The skeleton of that novel’s title character is eventually found years later embracing this character’s corpse before crumbling to dust.
ANSWER: Esmeralda (From The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
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