Gavroche Thénardier (ɡavʁɔʃ) is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child, in French gamin. Gavroche plays a short yet significant role in the many musical adaptions of Les Misérables, sharing the populist ...