Jean was happy under his new pseudonym, but when Cosette is old enough to graduate and enter the nunnery, she insist to 'see the world', despite his warning it's wicked and cruel. They move to Paris, but she wines about being 'locked up worse' in the fine mansion, till he takes her on walks to the Lixemburg Gardens. There she meets and catches the eye of Marius Pontmercy, who left his royalist grandfather penniless after a Bonapartist veteran told him about his father. Naively agreeing to help a beggar girls, like Marius before him, Valjean finds her pimp is non other then Thénardier, who blackmails him no keep his identity secret. Javert is now a decorated Paris police officer, and gets on their trail after Marius reports Thénardier exploiting beggar kids, but Valjeans escapes after fighting off thugs and cops.
—KGF Vissers