The new season of PNC Broadway in Louisville kicked off Tuesday with "Les Misérables ... an actual event in French history.

The current touring incarnation of “Les Miserables” underscores the ... the adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel set during the French Revolution didn’t win eight Tony Awards for no ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... for his historical novel Les Miserables, later to be transformed ...

The trio of history lectures were completely sold out this season, covering topics including the French Revolution.

There’s also the fact that this was the reprise of the song from the end of the musical — after the revolution failed. "I mean, the rebellion does not end well in Les Mis," one redditor pointed out. " ...