During the barricades, Gavroche tells Enjolras and others fighting that Javert is a liar and a traitor. When Jean Valjean arrives, Enjolras allows him to kill Javert. Valjean takes Javert into the side street and “he cut the cord which he had on his feet; and, rising; he said to him ‘you are free’,” (313). Valjean lets his enemy go, sparing his life and still having his own at risk. Valjean also being an honest man and using redemption, tells Javert that he lives under the name Fauchelevent, in the Rue de L’ Homme Arme, number seven,” (313). Jean Valjean, therefore not only tells Javert his own alias, at the time, but where he's living and when Javert allows Valjean to save Marius, Javert leaves Valjean’s house when they are there. Because
