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Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace as a kid was... weird. It had whole sections in French which I didn't understand at all at the time. They were not very important to the plot but re-reading it later with a help of Google Translate they did change the vibe a bit.
You don't have footnotes with the translation??
I don't remember exactly now, but yeah I think I had an edition that didn't have any footnotes or translations or commentary, just the original text in Russian and French.
Sounds like an absolute torture with that book