"No, my father is a magistrate; they preferred that I follow him into law." He couldn't imagine himself serving in the king's armies at all, his service to France was another thing entirely. (Not to mention likely some of the guardsmen he would have been serving with would have been supports of Bonaparte, whom Enjolras cannot abide.)

"Well, I am sorry to dissuade your fantasies, but I would likely be awful on horseback." He doesn't mention the pause, there, he has had more than enough of those lately to comment on them. "My philosopher friend -- he was also a doctor, or studying to be one. He pulled bullets out of my friends and I more than once."