Enfin il ne se passait pas de semaine sans que ce malheureux nom ne vînt s’enchâsser dans quelque sonnet atroce.
The lower orders gave the name Rassi to mad dogs; recently more than one soldier had fought a duel because one of his comrades had called him Rassi. Not a week passed, moreover, in which this ill-starred name did not figure in some atrocious sonnet.