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In an email sent in response to his application, Augustine Tanner-Ihm was told he "might feel uncomfortable" in the curacy role at the parish.

There are glimpses of it in The Village, a poem written at the time of his curacy, which sets out to deflate sentimental ideas about rural life.

I came," he continued, "to tell you that you have been appointed to the curacy of C——.

He held a benefice in the Cathedral of Noyon, his native town, and at seventeen he drew additional revenue from a curacy in a neighboring parish.

But I hear that because he preaches what is not to everybody's taste, but what thousands and thousands are saying, he is to lose his curacy.