Talk:Fantine

Musician

There's a (reasonably) famous but up and coming musician called Fantine (http://www.fantine.com.au/). How famous does she have to be before getting a page and a "if you were looking for Fantine(musician)" link at the top. I don't want to create or add something before I know it's right to do so! Gavinio (talk) 06:26, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Differences in the musical

This section has no references. A reference is a link to a third party -- not to another WP entry -- where someone has stated what the significant differences between the novel and the musical are. This section is wholly invented, not sourced. It's just some editor's notion of what the differences worth mentioning are. That's no source at all. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 22:35, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

If you think modification is needed, then make the modifications. If you think more references are needed, add them. Mediatech492 (talk) 23:04, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

If that were how wikipedia worked, there would be no tag available to ask for more refs. You're not supposed to remove such a tag without actually addressing the issue (which have not, since you've added no refs) or by achieving consensus on the Talk page, which you also have not. The tag I've added calls the attention of all readers to the fact that they may want to do some work here.

I'd also note that WP generally discourages us from using entries devoted to novels to focus on plot. This section as it stands focuses entirely on plot and is really nothing more than trivia. I hope someone can track down sources that can turn it into something substantial. Not plot, but differences in the character of Fantine in the novel and other adaptations.

Anyone working on this or any other Les Miserables entry might find this useful:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/Style_guidelines

I may add more to this list. I can't seem to find an interesting guideline I've seen in the past about when and if a character deserves to have his.her own wikipedia entry. That might be of interest with respect to Fantine. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:40, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Margaret Bernardine Hall - Fantine - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Margaret Bernardine Hall - Fantine - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 22, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-10-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:04, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Fantine, a character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, in an 1886 painting by Margaret Bernadine Hall. In the novel, Fantine is a young orphan girl who is impregnated by a rich student, who then abandons her and their child Cosette. Forced by her poverty to become a prostitute, Fantine sacrifices her youth, beauty, and health in order to raise her daughter. After she dies, Cosette is raised by Jean Valjean.

Fantine has been described as the "quintessential mother" whose sacrifice serves the good of her child, and identified with "the saved and saintly prostitute". She has been depicted in numerous adaptations of the novel, including the musical and the 2012 film (in which she was portrayed by Anne Hathaway).Painting: Margaret Bernadine Hall

Fantine's Illness

The article states that Fantine suffered from "Tuberculosis". As far as I've found, Hugo only described it as a cough. What is the basis for identifying the disease specifically? Mediatech492 (talk) 16:21, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

It's true it's not named in the novel, but there are many sources that identify it as TB. Of course it was the archetypal disease from which people died a (supposedly) "roamantic" death in which their body is consumed. Paul B (talk) 17:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)