At length he came to the summit of the high mountain, beneath which he must pass in order to arrive, by this diagonal route, at the lonely valley in which his friend Fouque, the young timber merchant, lived.
Enfin il atteignit le sommet de la grande montagne, près duquel il fallait passer pour arriver, par cette route de traverse, à la vallée solitaire qu’habitait Fouqué, le jeune marchand de bois son ami.