Une des dames les plus admirées à Naples avait fait des folies en son honneur pendant la dernière année de son séjour, ce qui d’abord l’avait amusé, et avait fini par l’excéder d’ennui, tellement qu’un des bonheurs de son départ fut d’être délivré des attentions de la charmante duchesse d’A… Ce fut en 1821, qu’ayant subi passablement tous ses examens, son directeur d’études ou gouverneur eut une croix et un cadeau, et lui partit pour voir enfin cette ville de Parme, à laquelle il songeait souvent.
One of the most generally admired ladies in Naples had done all sorts of foolish things in his honour during the last year of his stay there, which at first had amused him, and had ended by boring him to tears, so much so that one of the joys of his departure was the prospect of being delivered from the attentions of the charming Duchessa d'A----. It was in 1821 that, having satisfactorily passed all his examinations, his director of studies, or governor, received a Cross and a gratuity, and he himself started out to see at length that city of Parma of which he had often dreamed.