But what completed their discomfiture was a sermon by the new curé, Abbé Ranvier, that lean priest with eyes like red-hot coals who had succeeded Abbé Joire.
Mais ce qui acheva de leur feler le crâne, ce fut un prône de leur nouveau curé, l'abbé Ranvier, ce pretre maigre aux yeux de braise rouge, qui succédait a l'abbé Joire.