What is the original French?

Le rire, c'est le soleil; il chasse l'hiver du visage humain. Translated from the original French by Spartan Surfers.

Le rire, c'est le soleil; il chasse l'hiver du visage humain.

Laughter is sunshine. It chases winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Part 2 (Cosette), Book 8, ch. 9

What it means

Hugo writes this as the gloom lifts from the child Cosette's face. Laughter warms people the way sun warms a cold day. Bring some.

The source

"Laughter is sunshine. It chases winter from the human face." Victor Hugo said it in Les Misérables, Part 2 (Cosette), Book 8, ch. 9. Translated from the original French by Spartan Surfers.

"Le rire, c'est le soleil; il chasse l'hiver du visage humain."

Original French, Les Misérables, Part 2 (Cosette), Book 8, ch. 9. Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Victor Hugo (1802–1885). French poet and novelist who wrote Les Misérables (1862), much of it in exile on the island of Guernsey.

Questions

What does "Laughter is sunshine. It chases winter from the human face." mean?: Hugo writes this as the gloom lifts from the child Cosette's face. Laughter warms people the way sun warms a cold day. Bring some.
Who said "Laughter is sunshine. It chases winter from the human face."?: Victor Hugo (1802–1885). Source: Les Misérables, Part 2 (Cosette), Book 8, ch. 9.
What is the original French?: Le rire, c'est le soleil; il chasse l'hiver du visage humain. Translated from the original French by Spartan Surfers.
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Cite this line

"Laughter is sunshine. It chases winter from the human face." (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Part 2 (Cosette), Book 8, ch. 9, translated by Spartan Surfers). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/laughter-is-sunshine-it-chases-winter-from-the