[Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Communist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I don't currently have full access to British Newspaper Archive.  I can see the following snippet, which seems to be a slight antedating of the word "communist."  Is anyone with full access able to tell me what the correct text says?


THE COURIER. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6 <https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001476/18400706/014/0002>
... but hesitates to express its feelings boldly. As for the Siécle and Courrier, two papers that were little better than the Communistes a short time ago, they affect a kind of horror for such men and such proceedings. The Debats itself is not more Conservative ...
Published: Monday 06 July 1840
Newspaper: London Courier and Evening Gazette<https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1840-01-01/1840-12-31?newspaperTitle=London%20Courier%20and%20Evening%20Gazette>
County: London, England


Fred Shapiro

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