Plusieurs fois il m’annonça que je ferais une assez belle fortune ecclésiastique, il croyait que je serais curé de la magnifique église de Saint-Giovita, à Brescia ; j’ai été curé d’un petit village de sept cent cinquante feux !
More than once he announced to me that I should have quite a fine career in the church; he believed that I was to be the curate of the magnificent church of San Giovila, at Brescia; I have been the curate of a little village of seven hundred and fifty chimneys!