Le général avait fait placer dans chaque chambre de gros madriers de chêne formant comme des bancs de trois pieds de haut, et c’était là son invention capitale, celle qui lui donnait des droits au ministère de la police.
The General had had placed in each room huge joists of oak in the form of trestles three feet high, and this was his paramount invention, which gave him a claim to the Ministry of Police.