Les Autrichiens se rapprochèrent de Milan ; le lieutenant Robert, devenu chef de bataillon et blessé à la bataille de Cassano, vint loger pour la dernière fois chez son amie la marquise del Dongo.
The Austrians again drew near to Milan; Lieutenant Robert, who had been promoted to the command of a battalion and had been wounded at the battle of Cassano, came to lodge for the last time in the house of his friend the Marchesa del Dongo.