[Les Mis] Volume IV, Book 1 is called "A Few Words of History". I have a bad feeling about this.

Victor Hugo doesn't know how to do anything with a FEW words

Also, Javert is a snarky bastard sometimes. "Shall we draw lots? Draw straws? Pull names from a hat?" "Might I offer my hat."

Uh oh. No...no he doesn't.

WATERLOO

I am still mad at him over Waterloo

Though at least hte July Revolution provides relevant context. Unlike his essay on why Napoleon lost at Waterloo.

Apparently Hugo had a lot of feels about the event.

Apparently!

19 chapters' worth of feels

Of which only the 19th was relevant.

Yeeeah.

I still haven't reached the infamous history of the Paris sewer system

I survived the history of convents and his feels about them though

Geez, I bet if he just wrote about his story and not about the history of everything, the book would be only about an eighth as long.

Sounds about right