Cet officier, jeune réquisitionnaire assez leste, possédait pour tout bien, en entrant dans ce palais, un écu de six francs qu’il venait de recevoir à Plaisance.
This officer, a young conscript not over-burdened with scruples, possessed as his whole worldly wealth, when he entered this _palazzo_, a scudo of six francs which he had received at Piacenza.