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Yet notice what concludes this catalog of glory: "Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever." The same reason anchors both the miraculous and the mundane.
Christ quoted Hosea 6:6 to challenge the Pharisees' misaligned devotion.
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel he called *Les Misères* — "The Miseries." It was a portrait of poverty and injustice in France....
In 1845, Victor Hugo began writing a novel about a convict named Jean Valjean — a man imprisoned nineteen years for stealing a loaf of...
In April 1862, Victor Hugo published *Les Misérables* from his exile on the island of Guernsey, where political banishment from France had given him years...