Democratize property, not by abolishing, but by universalizing it, so that every citizen without exception may be a landowner, an easier task than it may be supposed; in short, know how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will possess at once material greatness and moral greatness, and you will be worthy to be called France.

— VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables, Saint Denis, Book I., Chap. 4.