This is unexpectedly profound. I have no idea how you managed to avoid accedently giveing the narrator more knowledge than he would acualy posses.

In short...

Exemplary

-RedKiwi

I thought this was fantastic. Your way with words gave little insites into the story that we know to be true and also to things that only the speaker would know. I loved how, although we already knew who the man was talking about, you saved actually saying Javert's name until the end of the story. I can honestly see the man put down his pen in a dimly lit room after writing this and slowly standing up to walk away. It was very good. You have a gift.

Short, sweet, and excellent.

Oh... now isn't that sad! Unfortunately, I haven't any creative critisism, merely praise.

What a fabulous concept! I've always though that "suicide note" was incredibly key to Javert's character, and I've always wondered just how Javert's colleagues reacted to his death. I'm sure that the prefect would have greatly respected Javert's talent, been annoyed periodically by his smartass mouth, and been utterly flummoxed by his death. This was great, I loved it.

original premise, great execution.

I am extremely impressed. Your perspective is phenomenal. I am always been intrigued by the fact that his final farewell was not even a spoken word. He was silent as he wrote his letter to the prefect, apparently not communicating witht he officer stationed at the post that he wrote at. Also, his farewell was calm and buisness-like, though if you carefully disect it, you can find that he is indeed going insane. For example, one of the lines was the he didn't think that it was right to have a road seperating people from a jail( or along those lines) as it would make people have to cross the road. THis is a little eccentric.

As for your story. I hope that you write more along these lines. I am very tough on the fiction I read, and I must say, as before, yours was stunning.

Megeahn

I like your story very much - I'd never thought of the reaction of the chief of police...cold yet rational, not unlike Javert himself. I like your last line about the truth drowning with him. One of the most frustrating things about Les Mis is that there is no one who understands what drove Javert in the end - even Valjean thinks he must have simply lost his mind. It irks me!

Oooh. I like this - a new perspective. Well done.