SO MANY INSPECTORS JAVERT IN GABON! QUE D’INSPECTEURS JAVERT AU GABON!
English version In the popular imagination and literary culture, an inspector Javert is the very archetype of the inflexible, illogical and obsessively fanatical censor to condemn someone, even in spite of common sense. Based on Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables (1862), the character of Inspector Javert went beyond the framework of the novel to become a common name designating an icy and absolute vision of authority. Inspector Javert is the quintessence of the obstinate devotee. His dedication to tracking down his target is no longer a matter of the profession, but of pathology. He is ready to pursue his target for decades, driven by a sense of duty that has become a real obsession. Victor Hugo often compares him to a guard dog or a wolf. Today, to qualify a judge, a police officer, a politician, an administrator, or a Kounabelist journalist as Javert, is to denounce their excessive zeal. The expression refers to a person who uses the wheels of justice or administration not to ...