Mad dreams had then intoxicated him. Montsou at his feet, Paris beyond, becoming a deputy perhaps, crushing the middle class in a speech, the first speech ever pronounced by a workman in a parliament.
Des reves fous le grisaient alors: Montsou a ses pieds, Paris la-bas, député peut-etre, foudroyant les bourgeois d'un discours, le premier discours prononcé par un ouvrier a la tribune d'un parlement.