text: In one novel by this author Ebenezer Caudray marries Deruchette, the beloved of a character who retrieves a steam engine for Lethierry.
full_question: In one novel by this author Ebenezer Caudray marries Deruchette, the beloved of a character who retrieves a steam engine for Lethierry. A character in one novel by this author consoles himself for losing the woman he is obsessed with by visiting the Field of the Lark. In a novel by this author, a priest gives a set of silver candlesticks to a man who takes the alias Monsieur Madeleine. This author, who wrote of Gilliat in Toilers of the Sea, also wrote a novel in which Eponine tracks down the woman that Marius is in love with, Cosette. Prisoner 24601 is pursued by Javert in that novel by this author. For 10 points, name this author who created Jean Valjean in Les MisÃ©rables.
first_sentence: In one novel by this author Ebenezer Caudray marries Deruchette, the beloved of a character who retrieves a steam engine for Lethierry.
raw_answer: Victor Hugo [or Victor Marie Hugo]