Plus de vingt de ces pièces fort compromettantes étaient de la main du prince ou signées par lui, et dans le cas où la vie de Fabrice serait sérieusement menacée, le comte avait le projet d’annoncer à Son Altesse qu’il allait livrer ces pièces à une grande puissance qui d’un mot pouvait l’anéantir.
More than a score of these extremely compromising documents were in the Prince's hand, or bore his signature, and in the event of Fabrizio's life being seriously threatened the Conte had decided to announce to His Highness that he was going to hand these documents over to a great power which with a word could crush him.