A la chute de Napoléon, il s’est trouvé que, tandis que je mangeais mon bien à son service, mon père, homme d’imagination et qui me voyait déjà général, me bâtissait un palais dans Parme.
When Napoleon fell, it so happened that while I was eating up my patrimony in his service, my father, a man of imagination, who pictured me as a general already, had been building me a palazzo at Parma.