Draft translation of an unpublished text published in André Le Breton, Rivarol: Sa vie, ses idées, son talent d’après des documents nouveaux (Paris: Hachette, 1895), pp. 258–9. A brief, ironic piece touching on the relation of sacred authority and secular power.
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King: ‘How is it, impostor, that you come to my states to found a false religion?’
Apostle: ‘Sir, my religion is not false; nor could it be.’
‘What! Will you prove your religion to me?’
‘No, Sir, I will preach it.’
