All 9 Uses of

opulent
in
Les Miserables

An opulent priest is a contradiction.
Chpt 1.1 *

opulent = rich appearing (magnificent and luxurious)

"A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly.†
Chpt 3.4

opulence = magnificence or luxury

This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.†
Chpt 4.1

—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea.†
Chpt 5.2

and as many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions;†
Chpt 4.5

While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving utt†
Chpt 4.13

But Thenardier continued: "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money."†
Chpt 5.9

Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education?†
Chpt 5.9

Definitions:

(1) (opulent)
magnificent and luxurious -- usually expensive
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely, opulent can reference a rich abundance of something; or that someone is rich.