Sa position dans le monde lui fit une obligation d’en présenter un exemplaire magnifiquement relié au prince, qui crut lui devoir un dédommagement pour la mort cruelle dont il avait été si près, et lui accorda les grandes entrées de sa chambre, faveur qui donne l’excellence.
His social position made it incumbent upon him to present a magnificently bound copy to the Prince, who felt that he owed him some compensation for the cruel death to which he had come so near, and accorded him the grand entry into his bed-chamber, a favour which confers the rank of Excellency.