Improvements to the neighborhood included the Toulon Opera, the place de la Liberté, the Grand bHôtel/b, the Gardens of Alexander I, the Chalucet Hospital, the palais de Justice, the train station, and the building now occupied by b..../b Toulon figures prominently in Victor Hugo's bLes/b Misérables. It is the location of the infamous prison, the bagne of Toulon, in which the protagonist Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in hard labour. Toulon is also the birthplace of the ...
