M. Mabeufβs political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist. β¨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume One, p.461, Wordsworth Editions
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