Sans doute il ne manquait point de maîtresses, mais elles n’étaient pour lui d’aucune conséquence, et, malgré son âge, on pouvait dire de lui qu’il ne connaissait point l’amour ; il n’en était que plus aimé.
Of course he never lacked mistresses, but these were of no consequence to him, and, in spite of his years, one might say of him that he still knew nothing of love: he was all the more loved on that account.