A cette occasion, le général, qui aimait à parler de lui et de sa famille, apprit à ces dames que sa fille n’avait que douze ans, étant née en 1803, le 27 octobre ; mais tout le monde lui donnait quatorze ou quinze ans, tant elle avait de raison.
On this occasion the General, who loved to talk about himself and his family, told the ladies that his daughter was only twelve years old, having been born in 1803, on the 27th of October, but that, such was her intelligence, everyone took her to be fourteen or fifteen.