He continued his flight as long as he could see, when he turned round, the turreted enclosure of the University, and the rare houses of the suburb; but, when, at length, a rise of ground had completely concealed from him that odious Paris, when he could believe himself to be a hundred leagues distant from it, in the fields, in the desert, he halted, and it seemed to him that he breathed more freely.
Il continua de s’enfuir, tant qu’il put voir en se retournant l’enceinte de tours de l’Université et les rares maisons du faubourg ; mais lorsque enfin un pli du terrain lui eut dérobé en entier cet odieux Paris, quand il put s’en croire à cent lieues, dans les champs, dans un désert, il s’arrêta, et il lui sembla qu’il respirait.