English to French Other Poetry & Literature

While in the morality of the real world it’s wrong to kill others, in the reality of Barbey D’Aurevilly, it’s a failure of the human senses to not recognize a worthy opponent. The count’s wife completely fails in this respect on all accounts and it is the equivalent of turning one’s back on one’s fencing opponent so that they’ll have a full opportunity to stab one in the back. While such actions on behalf of Hauteclaire and the count might seem treacherous and immoral, what they really add up to is a superior amount of cunning, and this cunning is what dictates their success and their success is just.