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Updated: June 7, 2025

His coquetry consisted in drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever things he might be saying, Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly enough, Saint Augustine.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables