La saison de Bade était dans tout son éclat; et une lutte qui s'était établie entre deux joueurs russes, le prince Savine et le prince Otchakoff, offrait aux curieux et à la chronique les péripéties les plus émouvantes.

When Crozat, the Bohemian, escaped from poverty, by a good marriage that made him a citizen of the Rue de Vaugirard, he did not break with his old comrades; instead of shunning them, or keeping them at a distance, he took pleasure in gathering them about him, glad to open his house to them, the comforts of which were very different from the attic of the Rue Ganneron, that he had occupied for so long a time.