C’est lui, Mosca, qui, en sa qualité de ministre de la police, insiste pour regarder sous les meubles, et, dit-on à Parme, jusque dans les étuis des contrebasses.
It is he, Mosca, who, in his capacity as Minister of Police, insists upon looking under the furniture, and, so people say in Parma, even in the cases in which the musicians keep their double-basses.