Pendant les quinze jours que Fabrice passa dans l’auberge d’Amiens, tenue par une famille complimenteuse et avide, les alliés envahissaient la France, et Fabrice devint comme un autre homme, tant il fit de réflexions profondes sur les choses qui venaient de lui arriver.
During the fortnight that Fabrizio spent in the inn at Amiens, kept by an obsequious and avaricious family, the Allies were invading France, and Fabrizio became another man, so many and profound were his reflexions on the things that had happened to him.