Le duc Sanseverina, dans les lettres qu’il écrivait de ***, paraissait tellement enchanté de son ambassade et surtout de l’espoir du grand cordon, que sa famille craignait qu’il ne laissât une partie de sa fortune à sa femme qu’il accablait de petits cadeaux.
The Duca Sanseverina, in the letters he wrote from ----, appeared so delighted with his Embassy and, above all, with the prospect of the Grand Cordon, that his family were afraid of his leaving part of his fortune to his wife, whom he loaded with little presents.