Gavroche - Cultural References

Cultural References

• In French, the word "Gavroche" has come to mean "street urchin" and "mischievous child."
• There is a homeless organization in Varna, Bulgaria named the Gavroche Association.
• There are several restaurants across the world which use the name, including one in London run by the Roux brothers, Michel and Albert, which was the first in Britain to be awarded three Michelin stars.
• There is a French-language magazine about Thailand named Gavroche.
• While it predates the novel by three decades, the boy brandishing the pistols in Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is often associated with Gavroche. Gavroche fires a pistol in the novel; it is possible that Hugo meant to allude to the painting.
• Bulgarian poet Hristo Smirnenski has a poem called The Brothers of Gavroche.
• A famous Polish punk/ska group Alians named one of its albums 'Gavroche'.
• Nobby Nobbs takes the place of Gavroche in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Night Watch, which is loosely based on Les Misérables.
• In the French graphic novel series "Aspic, Détectives de l'Étrange", Gavroche appears as Hugo Beyle, and is said to have survived the barricades thanks to the mystical watch his father stole at Waterloo. He teams up with Auguste Dupin and Flora Vernet (herself a cousin of Sherlock Holmes) to fight Moriarty who is helped by the ghost of Javert.
• In the American TV show Glee, a minor character owes his namesake to Gavroche.