Fauré was regularly seen stealing out during the sermon for a cigarette, and in early 1870, when he turned up to play at Mass one Sunday still in his evening clothes, having been out all night at a ball, he was asked to resign.
A Fauré víaselle regularmente zafarse nos sermóns para fumar un cigarro e, a principios de 1870, cando un domingo chegou para tocar na misa aínda ataviado no seu traxe de gala porque estivo toda a noite nun baile, esixiron a súa dimisión.