Ce fut avec la mort dans l’âme que le comte, qui ne voulait pas paraître au palais du souverain avant d’y être appelé, écrivit de sa main le mot “u proprio” qui nommait Rassi chevalier de l’ordre de Saint-Paul et lui conférait la noblesse transmissible ; le comte y joignit un rapport d’une demi-pause qui exposait au prince les raisons d’Etat qui conseillaient cette mesure.
It was with death in his heart that the Conte, who did not wish to appear at the Sovereign's Palace before being summoned there, wrote out with his own hand the motu proprio which created Rassi Cavaliere of the Order of San Paolo and conferred on him hereditary nobility; the Conte appended to it a report of half a page which set forth to the Prince the reasons of state which made this measure advisable.