Let us discuss! Here are prompts for all the chapters read this week. Let these questions inspire your discussion but don't feel limited!

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1. From last year's discussion: He's lived through a lot, and doesn't want to see a return of "ninety-three", which according to my notes was the year of Louis XIV's execution (Jan, 1793) and the beginning of the Terror (September, 1793). Any thoughts on how he lived through the Terror? (3.2.4)
2. What do you make of the fact that he calls the people he employs the way he wants (home province and Nicolette)? (3.2.5)
3. According to Rose's notes: "a soldier of fortune: For a traditionalist like Monsieur Gillenormand, the soldiers of the Grande Armée were little better than pirates or highwaymen." How do you think will this be relevant? (3.2.6)
4. Gillenormand doesn't accept visitors until the evening. (3.2.7)
5. Hugo compares M. Gillenormand and Mlle. Gillenormand with the Bishop and his sister. The father and daughter seem to have a good relationship. The chapter title is "Two Do Not Make a Pair." Who do you think this refers to? (3.2.8)
6. Finally a long chapter full of characters/people. The crowd is a salon of bourgeois ultra-royalists/royalists. What do you think of this crowd? (3.3.1)
7. A rather long chapter describing the difficult life of soldiers who were under Napoleon but living during the Restoration. Any insights? Apparently Georges Pontmercy is modeled after Hugo's own father, Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo. (3.3.2)
8. Any other thoughts?