Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant, fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.
D’ailleurs, le bonhomme tournait à l’intolérance, au fanatisme, disait Homais; il fulminait contre l’esprit du siècle, et ne manquait pas, tous les quinze jours, au sermon, de raconter l’agonie de Voltaire, lequel mourut en dévorant ses excréments, comme chacun sait.