Fantine et monsieur Madeleine [English translation]

Valjean: Just a moment if you please,

Javert, set this woman free.

Javert: But Monsieur le Maire...

Valjean: I believe her story

She did nothing wrong,

Take her to the hospital.

Javert: But Monsieur le Maire!

Fantine: Is this possible?

Valjean: Go on.

Fantine: My God...

Valjean: Hurry a bit,

I will send for your daughter,

Free you from your debts,

You will find a new joy.

Fantine: Ah, it is you, Monsieur le Maire,

I must have misheard,

You let your foreman kick me out

He kicked me out of the factory!

You scoundrel of a mayor, author of my miseries!

Valjean: You who have not ceased to be virtuous before God.

Fantine: Are you an angel or a demon?

I would rather die than cling to false hopes!

If you must, let me fall further!

I no longer feel anything,

Valjean: What have I done?

My God! Had I but known!

All the wrong I have done!

Fantine: Misery, the child of distress...

All these vices and weaknesses

Misery unleashes the beast in the man,

And turns the bird into a stray dog...

Valjean: Then be it done as I ordered.

Javert: But Monsieur le Maire!

Valjean: I do not want to see anyone else!

• Artist:Les Misérables (Musical)