Note 845 — XV. OF THE PULPIT.831
Henri Van Laun translation
A certain Abbé de Roquette, a nephew of the Bishop of Autun (see page 226, note 453), had to preach one Holy Thursday before the king, but through some unfortunate accident Louis XIV. could not be present, and the preacher, disconcerted at the absence of the monarch, for whom probably he had prepared the most fulsome flatteries, did not dare to mount the pulpit and deliver his sermon.