Note 53 — Chapter XX · THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. 1789 TO 1804.
Frances Cashel Hoey translation
The author relates an anecdote here to which justice cannot be done in English, as the play upon words cannot be translated. The anecdote is as follows: “Une dame, ayant perdu son sac, voulut le faire afficher. ‘Fi donc!’ lui dit un mauvais plaisant, ‘faire afficher un ridicule, quand on en a tant!’”