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Letourneux, the fierce Jansenist, wrote to the Breviary-poet, Santeuil, his co-worker: "Vous faites fumer l'encens; mais c'est un feu estranger qui brule dans l'ensenoir. La vanite fait en vous ce que la charite devrait faire." Of the Roman Breviary hymns he wrote: "They always pray and excite the soul to prayer." "Train your hearts to attention, and hear all their prayers.
The common red onion, he had afterwards told me would be equally effective for the like purpose! But the red onion grew not in the woods, and the pin de l'encens I could not find. For all that I did not proceed without precautions. Youth though I was, I was an old hunter, and had some knowledge of "woodcraft," gathered in deerstalking, and in the pursuit of other game, among my native hills.
L'autel brille, l'encens fume, La victime s'embellit, L'amour meme la consume, Le mystere s'accomplit. "Do you believe it is possible to translate this beautiful stanza into German?" said the king. "If your majesty allows me, I will translate it at once," said he. "Give me a piece of paper and a pencil." "Take them," said Frederick.