Les femmes, désespérant de pénétrer dans la mêlée qui l’entourait, fondirent sur Fabrice, lui criant s’il n’était pas vrai qu’il avait voulu donner son napoléon pour être divisé parmi tous les pauvres du bon Dieu.
The women, despairing of making their way through the crowd that surrounded him, flung themselves on Fabrizio, shouting to him to know whether it was not the fact that he had intended to give his napoleon to be divided among all the poveri del buon Dio.