He busied himself with great questions: the social problem, moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc. He even began to blush at being a bourgeois.
Il se préoccupa des grandes questions: problème social, moralisation des classes pauvres, pisciculture, caoutchouc, chemins de fer, etc. Il en vint à rougir d’être un bourgeois.