The person who laughs

The action of Victor Hugo’s novel “The Man who laughs” takes place in England in the late XVII - early XVIII centuries. Guinplen-Birthday, in childhood, was sold to the Bandita-Comprams who made a fair jester from a child, cutting out a mask of “eternal laughter” on his face (at the courts of the European nobility there was a fashion for cripples and freaks that amused the owners and guests, the activities of compensation Sometimes even encouraged).

Contrary to all trials, Guinplen retained the best human qualities and his love.