In the book Les Misérables, Victor Hugo interweaved a lot of coincidences into the story to craft his plot and display the amazing qualities of Jean Valjean. Most of the happenstances revolve around a rogue character by the name of Thénardier who somehow interacts and creates a twisted web of relationships with most of the other people.
Out of the millions of people who reside in Paris, Thénardier, a major scoundrel in Hugo’s novel, always happens to encounter Jean Valj