Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Answered by characters from Les Misérables

Valjean: Poor chicken! I'll adopt it!

Javert: It was probably chasing a con who broke his parole.

The Bishop: I have bought the chicken's soul for God!

Fantine: It was trying to "come to me."

Enjolras: Let other chickens cross the road until the earth is FREEEE!

Grantaire: 'Cause that's where the beer is.

Joly: What was that about chicken pox?

Students in general: It was trying to break free from the oppressive monarchy and form a new republic.

Fauchelevent: Help! I'm trapped under the chicken!

Thenardier: Master of the chicken...

Cosete (eight years old): I'll name the chicken Catherine!

Gavroche: It's the fault of Voltaire.

Champmathieu: I don't understand the question.

Javert: I have only known one other who can do what that chicken has done.

Bamatabois: That chicken attacked me!

The Bishop: Would the chicken like my candlesticks?

Thenardier: It was running from me.... I was going to use it to fill up this sausage.

Mme. Thenardier: 'Cause I sent it to fetch some water from the well.

Marius: Chicken? What chicken? Has it seen Cosette?

Cosette: Marius!

Marius: My place is here! I fight with the chicken!

M. Gillenormand: [swings at the chicken with his cane]

Madame Thenardier: I used to dream that I would meet a chicken.

Eponine: It didn't want to be on its own any more.

M. Gillenormand: It crossed the road?! Blasted chicken! I disown it!

Victor Hugo: [insert fifty-page tangent on chicken farming]

Victor Hugo: Will the chicken ever arrive? Should we continue to look upwards...


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