Un coche ensablé(French) A coach stuck in the sand.[2] Stephen adapts the phrase from an essay by Louis Veuillot, Le Vrai poète Parisien (The True Parisian Poet), in his collection Les Odeurs de Paris (The Smells of Paris).[3] Veuillot is criticizing Gautier's Étude (Study), his funeral oration for the German poet Heinrich Heine.[4]
