Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernire crmonie, le bourgeois, laissant ses fils un hritage plus riche que celui qu'il a reu de son pre, quite ce monde o il a conu au moins deux grands sources de joie, la fortune et la vanit...Thus in the ostentatious pomp of a last ceremony, the bourgeois, leaving his sons a richer heritage than he has received from his own father, departs from this world where he has known at least two great sources of joy, the fortune and the vanity...

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