A concourse of singular circumstances in the liaisons that I had barely entered upon,
A severe education had kept me out of all vulgar debauchery. An ambition of winning and holding a place in high life had stood by me in my travels and a concourse of singular circumstances in the liaisons that I had barely entered upon, had seemed expressly to reserve me for her who has disposed of all my destiny. In a word, he came to Catherine a virgin.
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It is Poniatowski's own words from a fragment of his autobiography. The language is that of the 18th century.
He says that his past (concourse of circumstances) relationships (liaisons) with women have been very constrained.
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