Original Text:
Le Rapin.
Méprise la foule qui rit de ses cheveux graisseux, de sa barbe sale, de ses ongles bleus, de sa chemise noire, de ses habits décolorés et de ses airs de génie: il méprise Raphaël ou Wateau, suivant la mode parmi les rapins de son temps; il méprise la fortune qu'il ne peut atteindre et l'instruction après laquelle il méprise de courir, il méprise tout et croit que l'univers le regarde.... A trente ans, vous le trouvez Professeur de dessin au collège de Brive-la-Gaillarde.

Translation:
The art student.
He despises the crowd which laughs at his greasy hair, at his dirty beard, at his blue fingernails, his black shirt, at his discoloured clothes and at his allure of genius. He scorns Raphael or Watteau, following the fashion of the art students of his time. He despises the fortune which he will never attain and the lessons which he scorns to take. He despises everything and believes that the world is looking at him. At thirty you will see him as a drawing teacher at the Brive-la-Gaillarde highschool.