secretmellowblog:

The thing about Les Mis is: I love how beneath Paris there’s literally a secret labyrinth decorated with millions of human bones– a sprawling ancient mine that was converted into catacombs in 1700s with passageways where the walls are made out of skulls and long halls where you have to wade through waist-deep mounds of bones, full of mysterious altars and secret passages and graffiti from the French Revolution and hidden entrances that to this day at haven’t been fully explored

 yet Victor Hugo chose to give us a 300000 page history lesson on the sewers