Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.

Translation: There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch—the schoolmaster—and a mouth which blows upon it—the curé. | T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker (tr.), The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness (1877), The Second Day, Chapter III, p. 120 | Translation: In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest. | Huntington Smith (tr.), History of a Crime (1888), The Second Day, Chapter III, p. 187

There is in every village a torch: The schoolteacher/teacher. And an extinguisher: The priest/clergyman.