Mais en cherchant à construire de belles phrases latines bien longues, bien imitées de Cicéron, il se rappela qu’un jour l’archevêque, lui parlant de Napoléon, affectait de l’appeler Buonaparte ; à l’instant disparut toute l’émotion qui la veille le touchait jusqu’aux larmes.
But, while he was seeking to construct fine Latin phrases of great length, in the true Ciceronian style, he remembered that one day the Archbishop, in speaking to him of Napoleon, had made a point of calling him Buonaparte; at that instant there vanished all the emotion that, on the previous day, had moved him to tears.