Prior
He was appointed prior of the monastery of Nogent-sous-Coucy. After three years he was, upon his own urgent request, relieved from the priorate and returned to Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
For some time he worked on the new edition of the Maurist Breviary; then he assisted his confrère Claude Guesnié in making the elaborate general index in the works of St. Augustine.
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“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
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“A diff’rent cause, says Parson Sly,
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