Badiou loves Latour Litanies

This one is from page 61 of the English version of Logics of Worlds:

“veterans of lost wars, failed artists, intellectuals perverted by bitterness, dried-up matrons, illiterate musclebound youths, shopkeepers ruined by Capital, desperate unemployed workers, rancid couples, bachelor informants, academicians envious of the success of poets, atrabilious professors, xenophobes of all stripes, Mafiosi greedy for decorations, vicious priests and cuckolded husbands”

What is a “bachelor informant,” by the way?