At her death, she received the ministrations of a Jansenist priest.

For this reason, after her death, the Abbe Mouchaud refused to receive her into the church in which she had passed her life.

At the same time, in the same parish, Monsieur Dubourg, a big banker, was good enough to die.

In his will he stipulated that he should be borne straight to the cemetery.

'He is a Catholic,' reflected the Abbe Mouchaud, 'he belongs to us.' Quickly making a parcel of his stole and surplice, he rushed off to the dead man's house, administered extreme unction, and brought him into his church." "Well," replied Constantin Marc, "that vicar was an excellent politician.