History DerivativeWorks / LesMiserables

* '''''Literature/LesMiserables''''' (1862), the original epic novel written by Creator/VictorHugo.

[[caption-width-right:600:[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]''Manga/{{Les Miserables|Takahiro Arai}}'', ''Film/{{Les Miserables|1934}}, ''VideoGame/LesMiserablesCosettesFate'', ''Series/LesMiserables2000''[[/labelnote]]]]

* Some movies have Fantine look incredibly pretty (and above all healthy), when she's supposed to be dying of TB.
* Sometimes Valjean -- the 1978 version (starring Richard Jordan as Valjean) was released on video a blurb beginning: "Jean Valjean, a handsome young woodcutter..."
* Always with Eponine, at least in adaptations that include her (such as the stage musical). In the book, she's described as having lost any beauty she may have had, but you'd be hard pressed to find an actress playing her who isn't drop-dead gorgeous, even when covered in dirt.

* LighterAndSofter:
** The 1992 French cartoon. This is the adaptation where [[spoiler:no death occurs on screen]]. Cosette also has a dog friend, Amiral.
** There are several Indian adaptations ('50, '55, '72) that have this. Bollywood!Les Mis probably says it all.

** ''Les Misérables'' is not only a musical: Creator/LiamNeeson's most famous quote concerning the [[Film/LesMiserables1998 '98 adaptation]]: "One of the greatest novels in Western literature, and all everybody's asking is, 'Do you sing in it?'"

** Averted with the 1964 Italian miniseries, which is eleven hours long and has managed to put in most of Hugo's long narrative passages, such as some information on the underworld or the battle of Waterloo.

!!Adaptations without their own trope pages provide examples of:

** Some movies have Fantine look incredibly pretty (and above all healthy), when she's supposed to be dying of TB.
** Sometimes Valjean -- the 1978 version (starring Richard Jordan as Valjean) was released on video a blurb beginning: "Jean Valjean, a handsome young woodcutter..."
** Always with Eponine, at least in adaptations that include her (such as the stage musical). In the book, she's described as having lost any beauty she may have had, but you'd be hard pressed to find an actress playing her who isn't drop-dead gorgeous, even when covered in dirt.

Note that there are two films titled ''Les Misérables'' ([[Film/LesMiserables1995 1995]] and [[Film/LesMiserables2019 2019]]) that are ''not'' adaptations, although both are consciously named for the novel (that being said, the 1995 one takes heavy inspiration from it).