He has only his birth and his gallantry, and those qualities by themselves, which made a man accomplished in 1729, are an anachronism a hundred years later, and only give rise to pretensions.
Il n’a que de la naissance et de la bravoure, et ces qualités toutes seules, qui faisaient un homme accompli en 1729, sont un anachronisme un siècle plus tard, et ne donnent que des prétentions.