Many a woman's knee was on the ground, and many a woman's soul spent itself in joy and thankfulness when the news came with the fall of the leaf in 1801 that the preliminaries of peace had been settled.
Bien des femmes se mirent à genoux, bien des âmes de femme s'exhalèrent en sentiments de joie et de reconnaissance, quand, à la chute des feuilles, en 1801, arriva la nouvelle de la conclusion des préliminaires de la paix.