- Marius- of course, he miraculously recovers and marries Cosette. They live happily ever after.
- Cosette- finally gets to marry her beloved but brainless Marius. She inherits her father's millionaire status as a dowry.
- Thenardier- moves to Panama with his family. He becomes a slave trader in keeping with his character.
- The Bishop- I'm not sure if I said this yet, but he dies in his sleep about seven hundred pages ago.
- Eponine- already died a glorious death. Rest in peace.
- Enjolras- ditto.
- Marius' other college friends- died in the barricade.
- Gavroche- died in the barricade while singing at the top of his lungs.
- Fantine- died a while ago, but she is still revered by Valjean.
- Fauchelevant- died of old age in the convent.
- And Valjean... well, he died peacefully in his home at age eighty. Marius and Cosette are there to say goodbye, but first, he gives them the two silver candlesticks the Bishop gave him so long ago. He never sold them for money as the Bishop suggested but kept them through all the times he moved. Jean Valjean is buried, as per his request, in an isolated, overgrown part of the cemetary, with the following epitaph (translated courtesy of a site called Classic Bookshelf I am somehow unable to link to):
- He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he no longer had his angel [Cosette]. The thing came to pass, simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.
That, my friends, is my favorite book ever. Yes, I finally decided on one!
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