[oldbrowser]

Isn't this the story where the naive, meddling students inadvertently help create a situation where France gets invaded?

[GeronL]

something like that

[JerseyanExile]

Wrong uprising. You’re probably thinking about the Paris Commune uprising during the Franco-Prussian War. And that didn’t actually occur until after France had lost the war. The uprising in Les Miserables is an unrelated event that took place in 1832.