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Original Text:
C’est tout de même flatteur d’avoir fait tant d’élèves !….Mais c’est embétant, y en a de trop, la concurrence tue le commerce et pour peu que ça continue nous serons débordés, nous deviendrons perruques, rococos, nous crêverons de faim, faudra nous faire gendarmes ou capucins……..

Translation:
It's flattering in any case to have educated so many disciples!... But it's very vexing, they're too many, competition kills the market and if it continues much longer we shall be overrun, we'll become old fogies, antiquated, we'll starve to death. We'd have to become policemen or friars.