In the Year 1815 Monseigneur Charles-Fraçois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. (Denny)

Early in October 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man traveling by foot entered the little town of Digne. (Reimann)

An hour before sunset, on the evening of a day in the beginning of October, 1815, a man travelling afoot entered the little town of D----. (Wilbour)

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in jaws of the clouds. (Denny)

He sleeps. Although his circumstance was very strange, he lived. He died when he lost his little angel. The passing happened simply, by itself, as the night comes when the day has gone.