Editing Vicar (section)

==In fiction==
[[Oliver Goldsmith]]'s novel ''[[The Vicar of Wakefield]]'' (1766) and [[Honoré de Balzac]]'s ''The Curate of Tours'' (''Le Curé de Tours''; 1832) evoke the impoverished world of the 18th- and 19th-century vicar. [[Anthony Trollope]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Barsetshire]]'' are peopled with churchmen of varying situations, from wealthy to impoverished; the income differences prompted a digression in ''[[Framley Parsonage]]'' (chapter 14) on the incomprehensible logic that made one vicar rich and another poor. The 18th-century satirical ballad "[[The Vicar of Bray (song)|The Vicar of Bray]]" reveals the changes of conscience a vicar (whether of the [[Bray, Berkshire|Bray in Berkshire]] or of that in [[Bray, County Wicklow|County Wicklow]]) might undergo in order to retain his meagre post, between the 1680s and 1720s. "The Curate of [[Ars-sur-Formans|Ars]]" (usually in French: ''Le Curé d'Ars'') is a style often used to refer to Saint [[Jean Vianney]], a French parish priest canonized on account of his piety and simplicity of life.