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Fantine is the first doomed female in Les Misérables. Her role in the story is that she gives birth to Cosette and introduces the Thenardiers who play a much larger part further in the novel, in Paris. She is also the cause of Jean Valjean taking Cosette and raising her, and sadly she is also partly guilty of him being rediscovered by Javert in Montreuil-Sur-Mer. Without her Cosette wouldn't have been born, Valjean would have remained in Montreuil s-Mer and Marius would have been killed.