Note 11 — Chapter XII · THE PROFESSOR: AVIGNON (CONTINUED)
Bernard Miall translation
It was only a step from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock. He who but now had discovered Peru was about to feel more keenly than ever the sharp pangs of poverty; he whom science and fortune had lately conspired to raise to one of the highest chairs in the University was to be forced to descend from the modest desk of a lycée professor; he whom the friendship and admiration of Duruy had dreamed, it is said, of promoting to the high dignity of tutor to the Prince Imperial11 was now to be forbidden to teach the schoolgirls of his own Provence!