Editorial note — Translated from French. L'ABBÉ GERBET. [Footnote 50] BY C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE.
Reading edition
[Footnote 52: We translate "Le Chant des Catacombes" into prose, that the noble ideas may be given with literal accuracy. The author intended it to be sung to the air of "Le Fil de La Vierge" (Scudo). We give one verse of the original: