Du temps de Napoléon, il avait perdu deux ou trois millions par son obstination à rester à l’étranger, et toutefois, depuis le rétablissement de l’ordre en Europe, il n’avait pu obtenir un certain grand cordon qui ornait le portrait de son père ; l’absence de ce cordon le faisait dépérir.
In Napoleon's time, he had lost two or three millions owing to his obstinacy in remaining abroad, and even now, after the re-establishment of order in Europe, he had not managed to secure a certain Grand Cordon which adorned the portrait of his father. The want of this Cordon was killing him by inches.