Fabrice n’avait nulle envie de conspirer : il aimait Napoléon, et, en sa qualité de noble, se croyait fait pour être plus heureux qu’un autre et trouvait les bourgeois ridicules.
' Fabrizio had no wish to be a conspirator: he loved Napoleon, and, in his capacity as a young noble, believed that he had been created to be happier than his neighbour, and thought the middle classes absurd.