Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The story depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's children during a time of economic depression and various attempts to escape from prison.
Sorting fictional characters by their first names, not including actors or anything. Since somebody has decided to exactly copy this story just know that this is the original, and some people need to get some creativity