M***, ivre d’amour et presque tout à fait désabusé de sa folle jalousie, quittait sa place pour voler au palais de sa maîtresse et la remercier mille et mille fois, lorsqu’en passant devant le tombeau du cardinal il aperçut un jeune homme tout en noir ; cet être funeste s’était tenu jusque-là agenouillé tout contre l’épitaphe du tombeau, et de façon à ce que les regards de l’amant jaloux qui le cherchaient dussent passer par-dessus sa tête et ne point le voir.
M------, blind with love and almost entirely relieved of his mad jealousy, had left his post to fly to his mistress's palazzo and thank her a thousand, thousand times, when, as he passed in front of the cardinal's tomb, he noticed a young man all in black: this funereal being had remained until then on his knees, close against the epitaph on the tomb, in such a position that the eyes of the jealous lover, in their search for him, must pass over his head and miss him altogether.