Pont-au-Change

October 31, 1855. En route to exile on the Isle of Guernsey, French author Victor Hugo loses the trunk containing his work-in-progress, Les Misérables, overboard in an accident. Luckily, the man responsible for the mishap is the very subject of the work, Jean Valjean! Together they attempt to recreate the book, with the reluctant aid of Valjean's traveling companion: the former Inspector Javert

In 1855, while Victor Hugo continues to write Les Misérables on the Isle of Guernsey, he learns the story of Jean Valjean's continuing journey, taking him and his companion, the former Inspector Javert, from France in 1833 to Dickensian England and from there to the walled city of Québec, where in 1837 another attempted revolution threatens him and those around him.

The third volume of the Pont-au-Change series. Victor Hugo continues to write his masterwork Les Misérables while he becomes familiar with the people he will immortalize: Jean Valjean and his family. But not everyone welcomes Hugo's curiosity, especially as Valjean relates to Hugo how he and Javert encountered an old acquaintance and how Marius rediscovered something long thought lost to him...

In this fourth part of the continuation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Hugo learns the details of the lives of the people he would immortalize in his masterwork from the very subjects themselves: while Jean Valjean and Javert fight to return to Europe after being waylaid to Australia, an old enemy returns to wreak havoc on Marius and Cosette's growing family.