Le lendemain de son retour à Milan, je reçus trois aunes de drap et deux cents francs sur la contribution des six millions : je me remplumai, et devins le chevalier de ces dames, car les bals commencèrent.
On the day after his return to Milan, I received three ells of cloth and two hundred francs out of the levy of six millions; I renewed my wardrobe, and became cavalier to the ladies, for the season of balls was beginning."