tentation

I translated "La Tentation" by this method, never allowing a day to pass without translating a page or two.

I translated La Tentation by this method,—never allowing a day to pass without an attempt to translate a page or two.

Avec des matériaux si nombreux et si importants, il fallait bien du courage pour résister à la tentation de faire un système.

I translated the prayer to the Moon for the preface to La Tentation.

La Tentation proved a source of labor, for he never ceased revising it until it appeared in book form in 1874.