Je me suis tant ennuyé à propos de l’amour que je voulais me donner et de la Fausta, écrivait-il à la duchesse, que maintenant son caprice me fût-il encore favorable, je ne ferais pas vingt lieues pour aller la sommer de sa parole ; ainsi ne crains pas, comme tu me le dis, que j’aille jusqu’à Paris où je vois qu’elle débute avec un succès fou.
"I am so bored with the thought of the love which I sought to give myself, and of Fausta," he wrote to the Duchessa, "that now, even if her fancy were still to favour me, I would not go twenty leagues to hold her to her promise; so have no fear, as you tell me you have, of my going to Paris, where I see that she has now made her appearance and has created a furore.