Fantine's Story

"...she said she was a working woman, and her husband was dead." (Hugo 41-42)Fantine lied about her husband. Her husband was not dead at the time, it was a time of young love and foolish romance, where he left Fantine pregnant and disappeared, leaving Fantine with her baby, Cosette, as said in I Dreamed a Dream one of the songs in the Les Miserables' musical. "...He skept a summer by my side, He filled my days with endless wonder, He took my childhood in his stride, But he was gone when atutumn came..."
The single mother needed help to support her, to help her with the baby. Fantine stopped by a tavern owned by the Thernadiers. There Fantine humbly asks the family to take care and feed Cosette while shes gone to the city while she works, because she cannot take Cosette with her.