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Curiosities of Olden Times

About the same time an action was brought by a magistrate of position and fortune against the curé of St. Etienne-du-Mont, a M. Coffin, for refusing him the sacrament on account of a gross scandal he had caused. A wag contrasted the conduct of the two priests in the following lines:—

De deux curés portant blanches soutanes,
Le precédé ne se ressemble en rien;
L'un met du nombre des profanes
Le magistrat le plus homme de bien;
L'autre, dans son hameau, trouve jusqu'aux ânes
Tous ses paroissiens gens de bien.

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