Chapter 5
Volume 3: 3: Marius · Book 3: 3: Untitled?
5: The Utility of Going to Mass, to Become Revolutionary
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MARIUS had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday he had gone to hear mass at Saint Sulpice, at this same chapel of the Virgin to which his aunt took him when he was a little boy, and being that day more absent-minded and dreamy than usual, he took his place behind a pillar and knelt down, without noticing it, before a Utrecht velvet chair, on the back of which this name was written : Monsieur Mabeuf, churchwarden. The mass had hardly commenced when an old man presented himself and said to Marius: "Monsieur, this is my place."
Marius moved away readily, and the old man took his chair.