TheHighestPiehide bio
 Author has written 22 stories for Les Miserables. What follows is the chronicle of too many years of Les Mis obsession. Some of the things on here are much more worthwhile than others, but I'll let you decide what's what. Be forewarned that I don't tell stories so much as I slap a narrative guise on bits of meta/research. Y'all are welcome to find me on tumblr/Ao3 under this name if that's your thing. |
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The Blood of the Martyrs by Mme Bahorel reviews
After the first revolution of 1848, Combeferre is released from prison into the care of his younger brother, who had thought him dead. Now they must reclaim their relationship and discover their purposes in the new republic. In progress.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 15 - Words: 98,311 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 5 - Updated: 6/9/2013 - Published: 8/20/2005 - Combeferre
A Turning Point by Orestes Fasting reviews
A teenage Enjolras, pre convictions and pre scruples, visits a friend up north and the two go out for a night of wine and women. But then that pesky social conscience starts making its presence known...
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,156 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 2 - Published: 3/24/2006 - Enjolras, Fantine - Complete
Unevenly matched by AmZ reviews
Courfeyrac makes the mistake of challenging a stranger to a game of Russian billiards.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 587 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/7/2004 - Bahorel - Complete
Thirty Years by Velveteen Nightmare reviews
Marius is 51 and still needs reassurance from a 25 year old...and a dead one at that.
Les Miserables - Rated: K - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 994 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 29 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/29/2004
The Miserable Diaries by Framboise reviews
Yes, somebody did it: a vague attempt at VSD-inspired humour for which I am truly sorry. Implied slash which I hope is far too silly to be even mildly offensive.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 6 - Words: 5,850 - Reviews: 126 - Favs: 74 - Follows: 13 - Updated: 7/28/2003 - Published: 1/8/2003
Denouement by Closet Fanfic Fan reviews
A friend made an interesting comment after seeing the musical with me. This cheerful little story was the result.
Les Miserables - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,183 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 3 - Published: 4/8/2003
Caught In Between by Mowee reviews
When Combeferre is supposed to be asleep, the night before the barricade falls, he reflects on his childhood a bit.
Les Miserables - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,200 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 3 - Published: 3/29/2003
La Resistance by Alegria reviews
Les Amis de l'ABC reimagined in the time of WWII and the French Resistance. main character: Jehan.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,475 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 2 - Published: 10/28/2002
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Cass County, Compromised reviews
A brief submission for the Les Mis Across History fest, and a tiny sliver of a possible pre-Civil War AU. Jean Valjean and Cosette settle in Cass County, Michigan, which was so well known for harboring runaway slaves that it helped prompt the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,020 - Reviews: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 5/21/2013 - Valjean, Cosette - Complete
Absolute Virtue of Prayer reviews
Medieval monastery AU: Brother Grantaire doesn't know if there's any difference between longing after Brother Enjolras or longing after his blazing awareness of the sacred. Enjolras, meanwhile, is in the process of finding his true creed.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,705 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/27/2013 - Grantaire, Enjolras
Taxonomy reviews
Combeferre studies (and occasionally "studies") the women who come to the free public science lectures at the Jardin des Plantes. How does he react to the appearance of a seemingly unique specimen?
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,954 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 3 - Published: 1/8/2013 - Combeferre, Courfeyrac
Certainty reviews
(or: The One Where Combeferre and Stephen Maturin Bitch at Each Other About Politics) My longest fic in ages - and I feel like it's a borderline parody of my style. Crossover, Combeferre-centric, and almost nothing but dialogue about the politics of self-sacrifice. In which Stephen Maturin recognizes too much of himself in his brightest student.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,385 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Published: 1/3/2013 - Combeferre
For Science reviews
Joly and Combeferre decide to try hashish For Science. Science quickly falls by the wayside. (This thing is a very silly thing. Also: drugs.)
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 700 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/10/2012 - Combeferre, Joly
Alphabetical reviews
A young Grantaire discovers his R and ponders its meaning.
Les Miserables - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 839 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/10/2012 - Grantaire - Complete
Mundane reviews
Even Enjolras has his off days, when his desire for transcendence leaves him all the more earthbound. The first of a few ficlets that I'm transferring over from the tumblr-space.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 775 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 7 - Published: 12/10/2012 - Enjolras, Combeferre - Complete
Gusts from the Depths reviews
A series of brief one-shots about the symbolic effect of graves on young men facing down death. 5: When the anonymous voice at the barricade calls for the "protest of corpses," Enjolras proposes an alternative.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 5,406 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 5/10/2012 - Published: 12/20/2008 - Enjolras, Courfeyrac
Petit Cénacle reviews
In 1830, Jean Prouvaire, Théophile Gautier, and Philothée O'Neddy meet and debate "liberalism in literature" in conjunction with the events of the 'Battle of Hernani.' Almost 40 years later, Gautier and O'Neddy can't help but remember.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,748 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Published: 2/11/2012 - J. Prouvaire - Complete
He obscurely entered reviews
What was going through Valjean's mind when he rushed into the town hall fire the evening he entered Montreuil-sur-Mer? By this take, he evidently believed that he had stumbled from the pages of Les Misérables into those of Fear and Trembling.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,060 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/18/2010 - Valjean - Complete
Eroica reviews
Symphony-fic in a single movement: of Beethoven, Napoleon, and the trials of Marius Pontmercy. Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,239 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 12 - Published: 8/9/2009 - Marius, Enjolras - Complete
Playing Pygmalion reviews
Combeferre/Eponine, after an odd fashion. Hopefully not the horrific fluff you'd expect. Probably permanently abandoned; apologies - I'm not cut out for writing anything longer than oneshots.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 9 - Words: 15,818 - Reviews: 50 - Favs: 27 - Follows: 21 - Updated: 7/4/2009 - Published: 2/18/2008 - Combeferre, Eponine
That Slaveholding Brother reviews
A look at two historical fanboys and a sort of meta-by-proxy. A captured Confederate soldier argues with his Union guard about what the Brick means to him . Rated for regrettably accurate use of racial slurs.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,806 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 3 - Published: 2/15/2009 - Complete
Daisies reviews
More Hugo-Balzac: Jehan has a brief exchange with post-Illusions Lucien. Spoilers for Lost Illusions and the beginning of A Harlot High and Low.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,732 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 3 - Published: 1/2/2009 - J. Prouvaire - Complete
Crimes of the Light reviews
One man's memories of the sensational Enjolras-Jeanne trial and how it shook the July Monarchy. Companion piece to "The Author of a Crime Hid in Darkness," but can be read alone as well.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,829 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/31/2008 - Enjolras - Complete
The Author of a Crime Hid in Darkness reviews
1838: a reform-minded official's surprising encounter with a dying prisoner, and the consequences thereof. Slight but not significant AU.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,048 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 19 - Published: 7/26/2008 - Enjolras - Complete
Mythology reviews
Every leader requires a mythology - a rather different take on Enjolras's infamous "estrangement" from his family.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,060 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 1 - Published: 4/20/2008 - Enjolras - Complete
Chrestien at Chanvrerie reviews
Who was the soldier that Combeferre was lifting when he was killed? Balzac's Michel Chrestien (that is, if one is willing to terribly misinterpret what Balzac said about his death). Crossover with Lost Illusions.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,424 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Published: 3/23/2008 - Combeferre - Complete
The Saint Simonian reviews
Geeky author-fic is an underappreciated genre. How Victor Hugo learned about the consequences of the multiple Saint-Simons on a luckless "Saint-Simonian" poet.
Les Miserables - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,272 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 2 - Published: 3/16/2008 - Complete
Five Things that Never Happened to Combeferre reviews
Old, full of bad fandom tropes, vaguely embarrassing. But I'll leave it up for now.
Les Miserables - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 6 - Words: 2,945 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 5 - Published: 2/18/2008 - Combeferre, Enjolras - Complete
An Education reviews
In which idle conversation can be dangerous, and education doesn't always equal wisdom.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,173 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 12 - Published: 2/18/2008 - Bahorel, Feuilly - Complete
Dreams of Glory reviews
Enjolras dreams on June 4, 1832, and finds something of a soulmate. This was the first fic I ever liked enough to post, so it's certainly not my best, but I keep it around because I'm a sentimental wimp. A cute little crossover with Antigone.
Les Miserables - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,269 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/25/2006 - Enjolras - Complete
