Prêtre Martin
Prêtre Martin, also Prestre Martin in Old French is a character from old French proverbs who serves the Mass alone to himself:Prêtre Martin qui chante et qui répond - 'Father Martin who chants and who responds', said of a man who wants to be involved in everything.Faire le Prêtre Martin - 'To do Father Martin', meaning "to answer to oneself".
Osip Mandelstam likened poets to Prêtre Martin in his essay "On the interlocutor" .