C’était une imprudence gratuite chez un homme de sa robe et qu’il s’était bien promis d’éviter à Parme, qui après tout n’est qu’une petite ville de quarante mille habitants.
It was a gratuitous imprudence in a man of his cloth and one that he had indeed vowed that he would avoid in Parma, which, after all, is only a small town of forty thousand inhabitants.