Julien did not know that they had proposed to remove him to a horrible cellar, and that it was thanks to Fouque's intervention that he was allowed to remain in his charming room one hundred and eighty steps from the ground.
Julien ne sut pas qu’on avait voulu le transférer dans un affreux cachot, et que c’était grâce aux démarches de Fouqué qu’on lui laissait sa jolie chambre à cent quatre-vingts marches d’élévation.