Mais le jour où, pendant que mon père consultait le conseil de famille sur la rencontre de Legrandin, je descendis à la cuisine, était un de ceux où la Charité de Giotto, très malade de son accouchement récent, ne pouvait se lever; Françoise, n’étant plus aidée, était en retard. →
But the day on which, while my father took counsel with his family upon our strange meeting with Legrandin, I went down to the kitchen, was one of those days when Giotto's Charity, still very weak and ill after her recent confinement, had been unable to rise from her bed; Françoise, being without assistance, had fallen into arrears.