– Si Votre Altesse daigne consentir à ne point presser l’effet d’une promesse fatale, et horrible à mes yeux, comme me faisant encourir mon propre mépris, je passerai ma vie à sa cour, et cette cour sera toujours ce qu’elle a été cet hiver ; tous mes instants seront consacrés à contribuer à son bonheur comme homme, et à sa gloire comme souverain.
"If Your Highness deigns to consent not to press for the fulfilment of a fatal promise, and one that is horrible in my eyes, as making me incur my own contempt, I shall spend my life at his court, and that court will always be what it has been this winter; every moment of my time will be devoted to contributing to his happiness as a man, and to his glory as a Sovereign.