Robert Carter Aug 25, 2017:

My pleasure, Sabrina, saludos!

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

Actually, you helped a lot. Many thanks! I will leave this question open for a while as recommended by Proz, but I honestly think we are sorted here. Thanks again!

Robert Carter Aug 24, 2017:

Thanks again, and no problem. I just looked this up and it's basically a sudden storm that occurs in a specific region of Spain, so it's being used metaphorically to refer to the coming revolution. I've just posted an answer to get the ball rolling, but hopefully someone will come up with a better turn of phrase than mine.

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

By the way, thank you!

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

En 1834, trece años después del fallecimiento de Napoleón, nacería en esa misma ciudad el ingeniero Alexandre Goustave Eiffel, constructor en París de la torre Eiffel (1887).
Napoleón Bonaparte vegetaba tanto en Dijon como en el regimiento.
No sabía que en pocos meses todo iba a estallar por los aires.
Y que su vida se dirigía a una verdadera galerna.
En 1789 dio inicio en París la revolución.
Tenía veinte años de edad.
Las primeras noticias sobre los sucesos de la capital francesa, desde inicios del mes de mayo, no eran en absoluto anormales.

Does it help?

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

ok. Just a minute.

Robert Carter Aug 24, 2017:

Thanks. Could we see the rest of the paragraph here or at least what comes before it in this sentence? Without it, I still can't understand what this phrase is getting at.

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

I'm understanding "galerna" as turnaround. What do you think? According to the dictionary "turnaround" is when a bad situation turns into good, but what if we have the opposite scenario? Can I still say turnaround?

Sabrina Sattnin (asker) Aug 24, 2017:

Hi Robert, I'm translating an ebook about Napoleon history. It's the part when Napoleon was still having a no-troubling life in Dijon. He was an officer already and after the segment I mentioned, we are in 1789, when the revolution started in Paris.

Robert Carter Aug 24, 2017:

Hi Sabrina, what's the context here? What was this person doing at that time?