I saw the play years ago Les Miserables when it was traveling and showing in Tampa, it was memorable with the fantastical music production. I have never seen the movie but have viewed clips online like the one in this thread.
-->Victor Hugo and Les Misérables (excerpt from wiki link)
The death of Éponine during the June Rebellion, illustration from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables On 5 June 1832, young Victor Hugo was writing a play in the Tuileries Gardens when he heard the sound of gunfire from the direction of Les Halles. The park-keeper had to unlock the gate of the deserted gardens to let Hugo out. Instead of hurrying home, he followed the sounds through the empty streets, unaware that half of Paris had already fallen to the revolutionaries. All about Les Halles were barricades. Hugo headed north up rue Montmartre, then turned right onto Passage du Saumon (currently called Passage Ben-Aïad), at last turning before rue du Bout du Monde (currently called rue Saint-Sauveur). When he was halfway down the alley, the grilles at either end were slammed shut. Hugo was surrounded by barricades and found shelter between some columns in the street, where all the shops were shuttered. For a quarter of an hour, bullets flew both ways.[10]
In his novel Les Misérables, published thirty years later in 1862, Hugo depicts the period leading up to this rebellion, and follows the lives and interactions of several characters over a twenty-year period. The novel begins in 1815, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat and climaxes with the battles of the 1832 June Rebellion. An outspoken republican activist, Hugo unquestionably favored the revolutionaries, although in Les Miserables he wrote about Louis-Philippe in sympathetic terms, as well as criticising him.[11]
Les Misérables gave the relatively little-known 1832 rebellion widespread renown. The novel is one of the few works of literature that discusses this June Rebellion and the events leading up to it,[citation needed] though many who have not read the book or seen any adaptation often wrongly assume that it takes place either during the more widely known French Revolution of the 1790s or the French Revolution of 1848.[12]
This is the part of the play at the end I remember the most and stays with me...gave me chills when the voices of ghosts of the past arose and joined in the song (and the lyrics...so deep)...