In Les Misérables, Jean Valjean saves at least nine people: two children in Montreuil-sur-Mer from a fire; Fauchelevent from being crushed to death by a cart; Cosette from her troubled life with the Thénardiers; Fantine from being sent to prison; Champmathieu from returning to prison; a sailor in Toulon from almost certain death; Javert from death after Enjolras commands Valjean to execute the spy; and Marius from probable execution by the approaching army.
–Bob Welch, 52 Little Lessons from Les Misérables
