Les Miserables with Maurice Samuels

Les Miserables with Maurice Samuels

Maurice Samuels, Author and Yale's Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, joins the Based on a True Story podcast to separate fact from the fiction we saw in 1998's depiction of Les Miserables.


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