the guys in the 1817 section of les mis are prime examples of like the 19th century french version of lad culture. you can just so imagine a modern au where instead of going off to that restaurant tholomyes is like “right, how about a CHEEKY NANDOS??” and listolier is like “tholomyes, you absolute LEDGE, you archbishop of banterbury” and then they engage in the classic lad pastimes of getting drunk and treating women like disposable objects