Il eut grand-peine à s’endormir, et son sommeil fut agité de songes, peut-être présages de l’avenir ; le matin, à dix heures, il fut réveillé par le tremblement général du clocher, un bruit effroyable semblait venir du dehors.
He had great difficulty in getting to sleep, and his slumber was disturbed by dreams, presages perhaps of the future; in the morning, at ten o'clock, he was awakened by the whole belfry's beginning to shake; an alarming noise seemed to come from outside.