This surgeon used now and then to pay old Sorel a day's wage for his son, and taught him Latin and history, that is to say all the history that he knew, that of the 1796 campaign in Italy.
Ce chirurgien payait quelquefois au père Sorel la journée de son fils, et lui enseignait le latin et l’histoire, c’est-à-dire, ce qu’il savait d’histoire, la campagne de 1796 en Italie.